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Title: The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick
Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

Author: Various

Editor: James O'Leary

Release Date: June 1, 2006 [eBook #18482]

Language: English

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THE MOST ANCIENT LIVES OF SAINT PATRICK;

Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America,
and His Extant Writings.

Illustrated with the Most Ancient Engravings
of Our Great National Saint;

With a Preface and Chronological Table.
by
Rev. James O'Leary, D.D.

Fifth Edition.

[Frontispiece: Images of Saint Columba, Saint Patrick, and Saint
Brigida, Taken from the Spicilegium Sanctorum, and engraven at Paris,
A.D. 1629, by Messingham.]

New York:
P. J. Kenedy, No. 5 Barclay Street.
1880.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
P. J. Kenedy,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

TO THE

RIGHT REV. T. W. CROKE, D.D.,

Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand,

HOPING THAT HE MAY YET BE SET DOWN AS

The St. Patrick of New Zealand,

FROM HIS FORMER PUPIL, COLABORER, AND COMPANION,

J. O'LEARY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

The Confession of St. Patrick

St. Patrick's Epistle to Coroticus

St. Fiech's Metrical Life of St. Patrick

Tripartite Life: Part I

Tripartite Life: Part II

Tripartite Life: Part III

The Proeme of Jocelyn

The Life and Acts of St. Patrick by Jocelin

CHAPTER

I
II How a Fountain burst forth, and how Sight
and Learning were given to the Blind.
III Of the St