[729] Ibid. c. xv.
[730] Ibid. c. xviii.—Fiunt de medio barbaricæ leges, Romanæ introducuntur.—Ibid. c. viii.
[731] Ibid. c. xvi.—Illæ gentes quæ a diebus antiquis monachi quidem nomen audierunt, monachum non viderunt.
[732] In the hymn in which St. Bernard celebrated the virtues of his friend he compares him to the Apostles—
Sobrius victus, castitas perennis,
Fides, doctrina, animarum lucra,
Meritis parem cœtui permiscet Apostolorum.
[733] Sermo Giraldi in Concil. Dublinens. (De Rebus a se Gestis Lib. II. c. 14).
In the “Topographia Hibernica,” Dist. III. cap. 27, Giraldus confirms his assertion as to the chastity and drunkenness of the Irish clergy, but admits that they observed the canonical fasts with praiseworthy strictness.
[734] Hist. Archiep. Bremens ann. 1179 (Lindenbrog. Script. Septent. p. 107).