St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh   By: of Clairvaux Bernard (1091?-1153)

S^T BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S LIFE OF S^T MALACHY OF ARMAGH

by

H. J. LAWLOR, D.D., LITT.D.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

The Macmillan Company. London New York 1920

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CONTENTS

PAGE

PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO vii

NAMES OF IRISH PERSONS AND PLACES x

INTRODUCTION xii

LIFE OF ST. MALACHY 1

LETTERS OF ST. BERNARD 131

SERMONS OF ST. BERNARD ON THE PASSING OF MALACHY 141

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

A. ST. BERNARD'S DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF THE IRISH CHURCH 161

B. THE HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF THE COARBS OF PATRICK 164

C. MALACHY'S CONTEST WITH NIALL 167

APPENDIX 171

INDEX 172

PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO

A. T.C.D. MS. F. 4, 6, containing the Vita S. Malachiae and a portion of Sermo ii. imbedded therein. Cent. xiii.; copied from a much earlier exemplar.

AA.SS. Acta Sanctorum.

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A.I. Annals of Inisfallen, in O'Conor, Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores , 1814 1826, vol. ii.

A.L.C. Annals of Loch Cé , ed. W. M. Hennessy (R.S.), 1871.

A.T. Annals of Tigernach (so called: see J. MacNeill in Eriu , vii. 30), ed. W. Stokes, in Revue Celtique , xvi. xviii.

A.U. Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annals of Senat , ed. W. M. Hennessy and B. MacCarthy, 1887 1901.

Adamnan. The Life of St. Columba, written by Adamnan, ed. W. Reeves (Irish Archæological and Celtic Society), 1857.

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C.M.A. Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin , ed. J. T. Gilbert (R.S.), 1884.

Cant. S. Bernardi Sermones in Cantica, in P.L. clxxxiii. 779 ff. (1879): English Translation by S. J. Eales, The Life and Works of St. Bernard , vol. iv., 1896.

Colgan, A.S.H. J. Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae , Lovanii, 1645, tom. i.

D.A.I. The Dublin Annals of Inisfallen, Royal Irish Academy MS. 23, F. 9.

De Cons. S. Bernardi De Consideratione Libri V. , in P.L. clxxxii. 727 ff. (1879): English Translation by G. Lewis, 1908.

De Dil. S. Bernardi De Diligendo Deo in P.L. clxxxii. 973 ff. (1879). English Translations by M. C. and C. Patmore, second ed., 1884, and E. G. Gardner, 1916.

Dugdale. W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum , ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, 1817 30.

Eadmer. Eadmeri Historia Novorum in Anglia , ed. M. Rule (R.S.), 1884.

Ep. S. Bernardi Epistolæ in P.L. clxxxii. 67 ff. (1879): English Translation in S. J. Eales, The Life and Works of St. Bernard , vols. i. iii. (1889 1896).

Giraldus, Expug. ; Gest. ; Top. Giraldi Cambrensis Opera , ed. J. S. Brewer, J. F. Dimock and G. F. Warner (R.S.), 1861 1901. Expugnatio Hibernica , vol. v. p. 207 ff.; De Rebus a se Gestis , vol. i. p. 1 ff.; Topographia Hibernica , vol. v. p. 1 ff.

Gorman. The Martyrology of Gorman , ed. W. Stokes (Henry Bradshaw Society), 1895.

Gougaud. L. Gougaud, Les Chrétientés Celtiques , 1911.

Gwynn. The Book of Armagh, ed. J. Gwynn, 1913.

J.R.S.A.I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland : references to volumes according to the consecutive numbering.

Jaffé. Regesta Pontificum Romanorum , ed. P. Jaffé, 1851.