The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd.

Date:
1844
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Credit: The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Two obscure notices of the Baculus are to be found in the Annals of Tighernach. The first of these is entered under the year 1027, in the following words, bacall lpa oa yapu^ab, which Dr. O’Conor renders : “ Baculum Jesu sacrilege raptunT.” And in the year 1030, we have a record of another similar act of sacrilege : “bacall lppaoa papugab,um epi cap- “ The Baculus Jesu was profaned in a lib, agup po mapBao a cino qu la in matter relating to three horses, and the pep po papaig.” profaner was killed three days afters.” In the Annals of the Four Masters, at the year 1080, there is the following mention of this relic: “Sloigeab laUoippoelbacuam-6piain 50 h-Gbcliac, agup 50 piopa lTliohe, 50 o-cainic TTlaoileaclann in a cheac la bacall lopa, agup la Comapbapaopaig, agup la cleipcib muihan.” Again in the same Annals, at r Rer. Hib. Script, vol. ii. p. 279. s Dr. O’Conor takes the word pup u gab in both these notices to signify, that the baculus was sacrilegiously stolen. But the word does not necessarily signify steal- ing. Cill 00 papugab means to profane a church by any act of violence, such as shedding human blood within it, or taking out of it one who had fled there for sanc- tuary. See Annal. IV. Mag. anno 1224, where we read: “ Seachnasach, son of Giolla na naomh O'Shaughnessy, was slain by the Clann Cuilen [Mac Namaras~\, and the Bacliall mor [ large crozier] of St. Col- man of Kilmacduagh (00 papugab) was profaned by the deed.” Hence, when the “ A hostile expedition undertaken by Torlogh O’Brian to Dublin, and to Meath, when Maoileachlan came into his tent, with the baculus Jesu, and with the suc- cessor of Patrick, and with the clergy of Munster.” the year 1143, the Baculus Jesu is mentioned, word is applied to such relics as the Ba- culus Jesu, it implies that the vow made before them, or the covenant entered into in their presence, was broken or violated, or that they were treated with some in- dignity. The words of Tighernach are ex- tremely obscure. In the second instance, especially, it does not appear what was done to the horses : they may have been stolen from some place which was sacred in consequence of the presence of the ba- culus, or from the keeper of the baculus, whose property was considered sacred; or else, perhaps, some contract relating to three horses, which was made in presence of the baculus, was violated.