[celt-saints] 7 July #1
Celtic and Old English Saints 7 July =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Maelruain of Tallaght * St. Illtyd of Llantwit Abbey (see #2) * St. Boisil of Melrose (see #2) * St. Medran and St. Odran of Muskerry * St. St. Merryn of Cornwall * St. Ercongota of Faremoutiers * St. Ethelburga of Faremoutiers * St. Hedda (Haeddi) of Winchester =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= St. Maelruain of Tallaght, Abbot --- Died 792. "Labour in piety is the most excellent work of all. The kingdom of heaven in granted to him who directs study, him who studies, and him who supports the student." --Saint Maelruain. Saint Maelruain was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Tallaght in County Wicklow, Ireland, on land donated by King Cellach mac Dunchada of Leinster in 774. Tallaght Abbey became the mother house of the Culdee movement, which Maelruain co-founded with Saint Oengus. The name Tallaght (Irish Tamlachta), derived from tam, plague, and lecht, stone monument, records the burial place of some of the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, the Parthalonians, who were swept off by a plague about 2600 BC. Tallaght is situated in the barony of Uppercross, 5 miles south of Dublin. The monastery the site was donated in honour of God and St. Michael the Archangel by Cellach (d. 18 July, 771) of the Ui Donnchada, grandson of a Leinster king, Donogh (d. 726). The Culdee movement, intended to regularise the rules of Irish monasticism according to traditional ascetical practices, was codified in several of the saint's writings: The teaching of Mael-ruain, Rule of the Celi-De, and the monastery of Tallaght, promoted both the ascetic and the intellectual life, promoted community prayer with repetitions of the Psalter and genuflections, insisted upon stability and enclosure, and called for clerical and monastic celibacy. In typical Irish fashion, the Culdee movement was marked by strong asceticism. Women were discussed as "men's guardian devils." Ascetic practices included total abstinence from alcohol. Sundays were observed like the Jewish Sabbath. Vigils in cold water or with the arms extended in cruciform and self-flagellation were recommended. The movement failed because it lacked all constitutional means of making the reform permanent, although it called for tithes from the laity to support it. Like other Irish reformers, Maelruain emphasised spiritual direction and confession of sins by establishing rules for both. Tallaght's devotional life was marked by special veneration of both its patrons: the Blessed Virgin and Saint Michael the Archangel. Intellectual and manual work were integral to life at Tallaght. There are, Maelruain wrote, "three profitable things in the day: prayer, labour, and study, or it may be teaching or writing or sewing clothes or any profitable work that a monk may do, so that none may be idle." Maelruain, with Oengus, was also the compiler of the martyrology named after that place. The movement led to the production of the Stowe Missal, formerly enshrined, which is a unique record of early Irish liturgical practices. See this at : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/stowe.html The full text in ASCII: http://www.alltel.net/~gacanon/celtic.txt The Stowe-Lorrha Missal Shrine http://www.eskimo.com/~hmiller/cumdach.html A church was built in 1829 on the medieval remains of Maelruain's abbey. The locals maintained a long-standing custom of processing house-to-house, dancing jigs and drinking, on his feast, until it was suppressed by the Dominicans in 1856 (Benedictines, Farmer, Montague). The Rule of the Celi De: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/culdee.htm William Reeve's "The Culdees of the British Isles" has been made available on the Net by Peter Farrington at his "Celtica" website http://www.celticorthodoxy.org An Essay on The Culdees http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/04563b.htm A word so frequently met with in histories of the medieval Churches of Ireland and Scotland, and so variously understood and applied, that a well-informed writer (Reeves) describes it as the best-abused word in Scotic church-history. The etymology of the term, the persons designated by it, their origin, their doctrines, the rule or rules under which they lived, the limits of their authority and privileges have all been matters of controversy; and on these questions much learning and ability has been shown, and not a little partisan zeal. In the Irish language the word was written Ceile-De, meaning companion, or even spouse, of God, with the Latin equivalent in the plural, Colidei, anglicised into Culdees; in Scotland it was often written Kelidei. All admit that, in the beginning at all events, the Culdees were separated from the mass of the faithful, that their lives were devoted to religion, and that they lived in community. But the Scotch writers, unwilling to trace the name to an Irish source, prefer to derive it from "cultores Dei", worshippe
[celt-saints] 7 July #1
Celtic and Old English Saints 7 July =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Maelruain of Tallaght * St. Illtyd of Llantwit Abbey (see #2) * St. Boisil of Melrose (see #2) * St. Medran and St. Odran of Muskerry * St. St. Merryn of Cornwall * St. Ercongota of Faremoutiers * St. Ethelburga of Faremoutiers * St. Hedda (Haeddi) of Winchester =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= St. Maelruain of Tallaght, Abbot --- Died 792. "Labour in piety is the most excellent work of all. The kingdom of heaven in granted to him who directs study, him who studies, and him who supports the student." --Saint Maelruain. Saint Maelruain was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Tallaght in County Wicklow, Ireland, on land donated by King Cellach mac Dunchada of Leinster in 774. Tallaght Abbey became the mother house of the Culdee movement, which Maelruain co-founded with Saint Oengus. The name Tallaght (Irish Tamlachta), derived from tam, plague, and lecht, stone monument, records the burial place of some of the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, the Parthalonians, who were swept off by a plague about 2600 BC. Tallaght is situated in the barony of Uppercross, 5 miles south of Dublin. The monastery the site was donated in honour of God and St. Michael the Archangel by Cellach (d. 18 July, 771) of the Ui Donnchada, grandson of a Leinster king, Donogh (d. 726). The Culdee movement, intended to regularise the rules of Irish monasticism according to traditional ascetical practices, was codified in several of the saint's writings: The teaching of Mael-ruain, Rule of the Celi-De, and the monastery of Tallaght, promoted both the ascetic and the intellectual life, promoted community prayer with repetitions of the Psalter and genuflections, insisted upon stability and enclosure, and called for clerical and monastic celibacy. In typical Irish fashion, the Culdee movement was marked by strong asceticism. Women were discussed as "men's guardian devils." Ascetic practices included total abstinence from alcohol. Sundays were observed like the Jewish Sabbath. Vigils in cold water or with the arms extended in cruciform and self-flagellation were recommended. The movement failed because it lacked all constitutional means of making the reform permanent, although it called for tithes from the laity to support it. Like other Irish reformers, Maelruain emphasised spiritual direction and confession of sins by establishing rules for both. Tallaght's devotional life was marked by special veneration of both its patrons: the Blessed Virgin and Saint Michael the Archangel. Intellectual and manual work were integral to life at Tallaght. There are, Maelruain wrote, "three profitable things in the day: prayer, labour, and study, or it may be teaching or writing or sewing clothes or any profitable work that a monk may do, so that none may be idle." Maelruain, with Oengus, was also the compiler of the martyrology named after that place. The movement led to the production of the Stowe Missal, formerly enshrined, which is a unique record of early Irish liturgical practices. See this at : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/stowe.html The full text in ASCII: http://www.alltel.net/~gacanon/celtic.txt The Stowe-Lorrha Missal Shrine http://www.eskimo.com/~hmiller/cumdach.html A church was built in 1829 on the medieval remains of Maelruain's abbey. The locals maintained a long-standing custom of processing house-to-house, dancing jigs and drinking, on his feast, until it was suppressed by the Dominicans in 1856 (Benedictines, Farmer, Montague). The Rule of the Celi De: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/culdee.htm William Reeve's "The Culdees of the British Isles" has been made available on the Net by Peter Farrington at his "Celtica" website http://www.celticorthodoxy.org An Essay on The Culdees http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/04563b.htm A word so frequently met with in histories of the medieval Churches of Ireland and Scotland, and so variously understood and applied, that a well-informed writer (Reeves) describes it as the best-abused word in Scotic church-history. The etymology of the term, the persons designated by it, their origin, their doctrines, the rule or rules under which they lived, the limits of their authority and privileges have all been matters of controversy; and on these questions much learning and ability has been shown, and not a little partisan zeal. In the Irish language the word was written Ceile-De, meaning companion, or even spouse, of God, with the Latin equivalent in the plural, Colidei, anglicised into Culdees; in Scotland it was often written Kelidei. All admit that, in the beginning at all events, the Culdees were separated from the mass of the faithful, that their lives were devoted to religion, and that they lived in community. But the Scotch writers, unwilling to trace the name to an Irish source, prefer to derive it from "cultores Dei", worshippe
[celt-saints] 7 July #1
Celtic and Old English Saints 7 July =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Maelruain of Tallaght * St. Illtyd of Llantwit Abbey (see #2) * St. Boisil of Melrose (see #2) * St. Medran and St. Odran of Muskerry * St. St. Merryn of Cornwall * St. Ercongota of Faremoutiers * St. Ethelburga of Faremoutiers * St. Hedda (Haeddi) of Winchester =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= St. Maelruain of Tallaght, Abbot --- Died 792. "Labour in piety is the most excellent work of all. The kingdom of heaven in granted to him who directs study, him who studies, and him who supports the student." --Saint Maelruain. Saint Maelruain was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Tallaght in County Wicklow, Ireland, on land donated by King Cellach mac Dunchada of Leinster in 774. Tallaght Abbey became the mother house of the Culdee movement, which Maelruain co-founded with Saint Oengus. The name Tallaght (Irish Tamlachta), derived from tam, plague, and lecht, stone monument, records the burial place of some of the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, the Parthalonians, who were swept off by a plague about 2600 BC. Tallaght is situated in the barony of Uppercross, 5 miles south of Dublin. The monastery the site was donated in honour of God and St. Michael the Archangel by Cellach (d. 18 July, 771) of the Ui Donnchada, grandson of a Leinster king, Donogh (d. 726). The Culdee movement, intended to regularise the rules of Irish monasticism according to traditional ascetical practices, was codified in several of the saint's writings: The teaching of Mael-ruain, Rule of the Celi-De, and the monastery of Tallaght, promoted both the ascetic and the intellectual life, promoted community prayer with repetitions of the Psalter and genuflections, insisted upon stability and enclosure, and called for clerical and monastic celibacy. In typical Irish fashion, the Culdee movement was marked by strong asceticism. Women were discussed as "men's guardian devils." Ascetic practices included total abstinence from alcohol. Sundays were observed like the Jewish Sabbath. Vigils in cold water or with the arms extended in cruciform and self-flagellation were recommended. The movement failed because it lacked all constitutional means of making the reform permanent, although it called for tithes from the laity to support it. Like other Irish reformers, Maelruain emphasised spiritual direction and confession of sins by establishing rules for both. Tallaght's devotional life was marked by special veneration of both its patrons: the Blessed Virgin and Saint Michael the Archangel. Intellectual and manual work were integral to life at Tallaght. There are, Maelruain wrote, "three profitable things in the day: prayer, labour, and study, or it may be teaching or writing or sewing clothes or any profitable work that a monk may do, so that none may be idle." Maelruain, with Oengus, was also the compiler of the martyrology named after that place. The movement led to the production of the Stowe Missal, formerly enshrined, which is a unique record of early Irish liturgical practices. See this at : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/stowe.html The full text in ASCII: http://www.alltel.net/~gacanon/celtic.txt The Stowe-Lorrha Missal Shrine http://www.eskimo.com/~hmiller/cumdach.html A church was built in 1829 on the medieval remains of Maelruain's abbey. The locals maintained a long-standing custom of processing house-to-house, dancing jigs and drinking, on his feast, until it was suppressed by the Dominicans in 1856 (Benedictines, Farmer, Montague). The Rule of the Celi De: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3374/culdee.htm William Reeve's "The Culdees of the British Isles" has been made available on the Net by Peter Farrington at his "Celtica" website http://www.celticorthodoxy.org An Essay on The Culdees http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/04563b.htm A word so frequently met with in histories of the medieval Churches of Ireland and Scotland, and so variously understood and applied, that a well-informed writer (Reeves) describes it as the best-abused word in Scotic church-history. The etymology of the term, the persons designated by it, their origin, their doctrines, the rule or rules under which they lived, the limits of their authority and privileges have all been matters of controversy; and on these questions much learning and ability has been shown, and not a little partisan zeal. In the Irish language the word was written Ceile-De, meaning companion, or even spouse, of God, with the Latin equivalent in the plural, Colidei, anglicised into Culdees; in Scotland it was often written Kelidei. All admit that, in the beginning at all events, the Culdees were separated from the mass of the faithful, that their lives were devoted to religion, and that they lived in community. But the Scotch writers, unwilling to trace the name to an Irish source, prefer to derive it from "cultores Dei", worshippe
