[35] In the county Clare.
[36] Inchmore, or Deer Island, in the river Fergus, where this river joins the Shannon.
[37] According to the legend, an angel brought her to Iniscatthy, and S. Senan ran out over the water, stick in hand, to arrest her.
[38] Gonderik, bishop of Viliterni, was the author of the Life of S. Clement, which contains much information on the life and acts of SS. Cyril and Methodius.
[39] Robert was only eighteen when he married her, and she was much younger.
[40] Roman Martyrology. He was born at Skotsoehan, in 1576, then became priest of Holleschan, where he was put to death with the utmost barbarity by Protestants, on March 10th, 1624, partly out of hatred to his religion, partly because he would not disclose the secrets of the confessional.
[41] It is not known what the occasion of the persecution was, and why the metropolitan sided against the bishop of Cordova and his clergy, but there is every probability that it was because they had attempted the conversion of some of the Moors; and Reccafred, as a moderate man, preferred quiet and toleration to missionary efforts and persecution.
[42] She gave the sisters, we are told, candles and incense for their altar, and oil for their oratory lamp, but gold they would not receive.
[43] Decies, county Waterford.
[44] Not to be mistaken for S. Fechin of Fore. Colgan mistakes in so thinking.