and interesting to the student. There is no doubt that the saints of
Irish origin supply by far the more important portion of our hagiology.
They are countless. Taking merely a topographical estimate of
them--looking, that is, to the names of places which have been dedicated
to them, or otherwise bear their names--we find them crowding Ireland,
and swarming over the Highlands of Scotland and the north of England
into London itself, where St Bride's Well has given a gloomy perpetuity
to the name of the first and greatest of Irish female saints. Some
people would be content to attribute the frequentness of saintship among
the Irish and the Highlanders to the opportunities enjoyed by them in
consequence of the early Church having found a refuge in Ireland. Others
would

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