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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
this period, and denied both its aflumptions and many of its
doctrines. Quite as little is it to be expected that the Irifh
proteftants will concede that the great faint of that ifland, St.
Patrick, after his converfion of the Hibernians, came over to
Glaftonbury, and lived and died its firft abbot, in full commu-
nion with the papal church. Such a verfion we muft refer to
the monk Jofcelin of Furnefs Abbey, who wrote the life of
St. Patrick in the twelfth century, and firft converted him
into a Roman faint. That and the next age was a time when
the Roman hierarchy in Britain, as in other places, was bufy
deftroying the churches and fchools of the primitive church;
and then, after fome of them had been five hundred years in
their graves, made faints of the very men who had flood the
boldeft adverfaries of all Italian corruptions or aflumptions;
namely, Patrick, or as originally called Succat; Columbkille,
Kevin, Columbanus, Gallus, Claude Clement, Erigena, Albi-
nus, Virgilius, and a hoft of others. The truth feems to have
been, that at an early day primitive Chriftianity was driven out
of England into Ireland, and thence to Iona, and returned
thence again to both England and the continent through the
apoftles of the Irifh fchool of Bangor, and of the venerable
Iona. As for Ireland, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in his life of
Malachy, bifhop of Down, fays that he and the monks fent
over thither by Bernard himfelf, were “ the firfl true monks
Ireland ever faw.” And this is fully confirmed by archbifhop
Ufher, who fays that Malachy, archbifhop of Armagh, and
Laurence of Dublin, both in the twelfth century, were the
firfl bifhops of Ireland canonized by the pope.
Yet it is amufing with what gravity John of Glaftonbury
tells us that he was fent by Pope Casleftinus in 425 to convert
the Irifh—that having refufed to be made pope himfelf, he
landed in Cornwall, and went thence to Glaftonbury in 433,
GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
this period, and denied both its aflumptions and many of its
doctrines. Quite as little is it to be expected that the Irifh
proteftants will concede that the great faint of that ifland, St.
Patrick, after his converfion of the Hibernians, came over to
Glaftonbury, and lived and died its firft abbot, in full commu-
nion with the papal church. Such a verfion we muft refer to
the monk Jofcelin of Furnefs Abbey, who wrote the life of
St. Patrick in the twelfth century, and firft converted him
into a Roman faint. That and the next age was a time when
the Roman hierarchy in Britain, as in other places, was bufy
deftroying the churches and fchools of the primitive church;
and then, after fome of them had been five hundred years in
their graves, made faints of the very men who had flood the
boldeft adverfaries of all Italian corruptions or aflumptions;
namely, Patrick, or as originally called Succat; Columbkille,
Kevin, Columbanus, Gallus, Claude Clement, Erigena, Albi-
nus, Virgilius, and a hoft of others. The truth feems to have
been, that at an early day primitive Chriftianity was driven out
of England into Ireland, and thence to Iona, and returned
thence again to both England and the continent through the
apoftles of the Irifh fchool of Bangor, and of the venerable
Iona. As for Ireland, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in his life of
Malachy, bifhop of Down, fays that he and the monks fent
over thither by Bernard himfelf, were “ the firfl true monks
Ireland ever faw.” And this is fully confirmed by archbifhop
Ufher, who fays that Malachy, archbifhop of Armagh, and
Laurence of Dublin, both in the twelfth century, were the
firfl bifhops of Ireland canonized by the pope.
Yet it is amufing with what gravity John of Glaftonbury
tells us that he was fent by Pope Casleftinus in 425 to convert
the Irifh—that having refufed to be made pope himfelf, he
landed in Cornwall, and went thence to Glaftonbury in 433,