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Page 388 - of Drumalban, the western frontier of the Pictish kingdom; and that they were finally brought under the canonical rule along with the secular clergy, retaining, however, to some extent, the nomenclature of the monastery, until at length the name of
Page 388 - It is not till after the expulsion of the Columban monks from the kingdom of the Picts, in the beginning of the eighth century, that the name of Culdee appears. To Adamnan, to Eddi, and to Bede it was totally unknown. They knew
Page 388 - that they then became associated in communities of anchorites or hermits; that they were clerics, and might be called monks, but only in the sense in which anchorites were monks; that they made their appearance in the eastern districts of Scotland at the same time as the secular clergy were introduced, and succeeded the Columban monks who had been driven across the great
Page 393 - stranger. We Irish, who inhabit the extremities of the world, are the disciples of St Peter and St Paul, and of the other apostles who have written under the dictation of the Holy Spirit. We receive nothing
Page 388 - no body of clergy who bore this name ; and in the whole range of ecclesiastical history there is nothing more entirely destitute of authority than the application of this name to the Columban
Page 393 - We are bound to the chair of St Peter; for however great and glorious Rome may be, it is this chair which makes her great and glorious
Page 377 - not only to dry the oats, which for the most part are wet, but to burn off the husk. Then by winnowing they separate, as well as they can, the sooty part from the grain ; but as this cannot be done effectually, the
Page 388 - ascetic order who adopted a solitary service of God in an isolated cell as the highest form of religious life, and who were termed Deicola;
Page 102 - awne musick and Harmonic in singing, * quhilke of the actes of thair foirbearis thay haue leired, or quhat thame selfes haue inuented of ane ingenious policie to dryue a pray and say thair prayeris. The policie of
Page 16 - lykwyse and salmonte, oxne-hydes, wole and skinis, Buttir lykwyse that nane bettir, and cheise. Bot, contrare, to the West (quhair is a peple verie numerable in respecte of the