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.

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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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    Lanigan’s Ecclesiastical History1. Colgan has published a Life of St. Etchen, in the Acta Sanctorum, at the i ith of February. The following curious note, which occurs in the Martyrology of Aengus, at the end of the month of March, contains the Legend of the ordination of St. Columba by Bishop Etchein : “ Gppuc Gcchein ooni, h-i Cluain pocai 6oecain 1 peapaib 6ile a n-oep- cepc TTlioe aca. Ocup ip pop a amup 00 choio Colam Cille oo chabaipc jpao eppuic paip. Suioij ooni, Colam Cille po’n m-baipcne ppia cill aniap, ocup lappai^rbeao uao caic a m-baoi in cleipech. Ctcpin, ol pep ano, pop paipcbe in apachaip cip h-e. Ip 0015, 01 Colam Cille, ni coip oun aipeam 00 chabaipc gpao poipn. Qp at pin cpa ppomchap ocaino h-e. O chancocap ppipp, cuinjic cecup in pocc paip ppiup. Co m-bep 001b poceooip aice po aippec na 001m. Ip pep maich in cleipech, ol lac. Q ppomao beop ol Colam Cille. Cuinjic in c-imechcpaio paip. Gcnaij 001b po ceooip, ocup popconjpaio eppuc Gcchein pop oam n-allaio boi ip in choillio, in peiom pin 00 oennm, 7 00 po ceooip. Ueic ipam Colam Cille pop amup in clepij tap ppomao 7 m- oippeo 06 in nf po a cdmc. Oo jencap ol in clepech. Ctrnajap ooni, jpaoai pacaipc pop Cholam Cille, ocup j^pdoai eppuic po b’ail 06 00 cabaipc paip. Gpnaigio in clepech co apabapach. pu- oap pin, a chlepij, ol Colam Cille, in “ Now Bishop Etchein, was in Cluainfota Boetain in Feraibh Bile [Farbill], which is in the south of Meath. And it was to him Columb-Cille went to have the order of a bishop conferred on him. Columb-Cille sat under the tree on the west side of the church, and there asked where the cleric was. There he is, said a certain man, on the field of ploughing below. I think, said Columb-Cille, that it is not meet for us that a ploughman should confer orders on us, however let him be tested by us. When they met him, they first asked him for the ploughshare, He immediately gave it them, and the oxen continued to plough notwithstanding. The cleric is a good man, said they. Let him be tested farther, said Columb-Cille. They asked him for the outer ox. He gave it them immediately, and Bishop Etchein commanded a wild stag which was in the wood to perform the work, which he did immediately. Then Columb-Cille went up to the cleric, after having tested him, and told the bu- siness on which he came. It shall be done, said the cleric. He, then, con- ferred the order of a priest on Columb- Cille, and it was the order of a bishop he wished r Vol. ii. p. 125.