Intellectual progress, monasticism opposed to true, [407]; in Europe, [409].
Introspection, evil effects of morbid, [392].
Iona, Monastery of, [168].
Ireland, St. Patrick labors in, [123]; monasteries of, as centers of culture, [169].
Isidore, the hermit, visits Rome, [72].
Itineracy, substituted for seclusion in cloister, [244].
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Jacob of Vitry, on abuses of charity, [411].
James, the Apostle, quoted on rich men, [377].
Jerome, St., his life of Paul of Thebes, [35]; on Pachomian monks, [59]; his letter to Rusticus, [59]; on solitude, [61]; on number of Egyptian monks, [63]; on clergy of the fourth and fifth centuries, [77]; in his cell, [85]; Schaff on, [86]; his birth and early life, [86]; his travels, and austerities, [87], [92]; organizes monastic brotherhood, [88]; his literary labors, [88]; glorifies desert life, [89]; influences Rome, [91]; his temptations, [93]; his fondness for the classics, [95]; his biographies of Roman nuns, [96]; his life of St. Paula, [97], and of Marcella, [102]; on folly of Roman women, [108]; on marriage and celibacy, [112]; on household duties, [113]; attacks the foes of monks, [127]; on vices of monks, [128]; on monastic aim, [360]; on the natural, [366].