[132] She was in an especial manner the patroness of the ‘Sons of Reading,’ as students were then called; “and the Lord gives them, through Brigid’s prayer, every perfect good that they ask.”—Irish Life.
[133] See Round Towers, page 203.
[134] Dictionary of Christian Antiquities—‘Lamps.’
[135] Dr. Todd was of opinion that the manuscript described by Gerald Barry must have been the Book of Kells, which might have been removed at that time to Kildare for safe custody. But there is no historical foundation for this conjecture.
[136] Tripartite, p. 40.
[137] O’Clery’s Martyrology.
[138] Du Cange. See Dr. M‘Carthy’s able Paper in the Proceedings of the R.I.A., May, 1889. In the Tripartite (Stokes, p. 251), menister seems to mean the paten, and mias (quasi mensa) the altar-table.
[139] It has been said that Ninian died A.D. 432; but as Skene observes, without any authority. See Celtic Scotland, vol. ii., p. 4.
[140] “Proselytus Brito, homo sanctus, S. Patricii discipulus.” Secunda Praefatio, p. 6.
[141] Four Masters, A.D. 922.