[422] “De perversa autem et iniqua doctrina ejus, qui contra Deum et animam suam locutus est; si clarificatum fuerit ita eum confiteri quod alius mundus et alii homines sub terra sint, seu sol et luna, hunc, habito concilio, ab ecclesia pelle sacerdotii honore privatum.”*
* See Zachary’s letter to Boniface loco citato.
[423] It was while building this church that the saint so paid his men, that none of them could take out of the money-bag (pelle) more than his labours entitled him to. See the Lessons on the saint’s Feast.
[424] The epitaph on the saint’s tomb in St. Peter’s Abbey is worth transcribing:—
“Hic pater et pastor humilis doctusque sacerdos
Corpore Virgilius pausat, quem Hibernia tellus
Disponente Deo partes direxit in istas,
Quique regebat ovans praesentis culmina sedis
Ferme quater denos, caris cum fratribus annos
A quibus ille et amatus erat, pie quos et amavit.
Interim et extruxit pulchro molimine multa
Templa, loco quaedam nunc cernuntur in isto
Insuper et miseris largus, simul omnibus aptus,
Pro quo, quisquis legis versus orare memento.”
[425] See Haddan and Stubbs, Vol. ii., part i., page 7.
[426] “Sedulius Episcopus Britanniæ de genere Scotorum, huic constituto a nobis promulgato subscripsi.”—Labb. vi., 1458.
[427] Four Masters.
[428] Palaeographia Graeca, iii.
[429] See Professor Stokes’ Celtic Church, page 226.