[292] See the poem from the Saltair na Rann on the Patron Saints of Ireland, Cambr. Eversus, vol. ii., page 779.
[293] He was born in Mourne of Antrim, near Larne, not in Mourne of Down as stated here, and belonged to the Picts of Dalaradia.
[294] In the Second Life.
[295] Cardinal Moran thinks he was born as early as A.D. 530.
[296] Sinell himself studied at Clonard. His feast day is Nov. 12th.
[297] It is said that it was in Cluains Columbanus wrote his Commentary on the Psalter, lately published by the learned Ascoli. See Stokes’ Island Monasteries. Journal of the R.S.A.I., page 663.
[298] It is said that Columban when working at the spade wore leather gloves through reverence for the Holy Sacrifice which he used to offer.
[299] It was a ship—“quae Scotorum commercia vexerat”—trading between Gaul and Ireland.—Vita, c. 22.
[300] According to others he was nearly ninety.
[301] Some writers assert that Bobbio had been founded many years previously, and that this was the second journey of Columban into Lombardy. We follow old Jonas.