_The Sepulture of Saint Patrick in the City of Dunum._
And the people of Ultonia, having entered Dunum, celebrated the
solemnities of the Mass, and in the place foreshown by the heavenly
light buried the venerable body with all due veneration, and this
desirable treasure, this most precious jewel, they deposited beneath a
stone, five cubits deep in the heart of the earth, lest haply by
stealth it might be conveyed thence. But by how many and how great
miracles the bones of this most holy saint were graced therein, we find
not recorded; either because the pen of the negligent preserved them
not, or being written, they were destroyed by some of the many heathen
princes who ruled in Hibernia. Now, Saint Patrick died in the four
hundredth and ninetieth and third year of Christ's incarnation, Felix
being then pope, in the first year of the reign of Anastasius the
emperor, Aurelius Ambrosius ruling in Britain, Forchernus in Hibernia,
Jesus Christ reigning in all things and over all things.
Now unto Him be glory, and praise, and honor, and empire, through
infinite ages, for ever and ever! Amen!
HERE END THE ACTS OF SAINT PATRICK.
A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
TO THE
LIVES OF ST. PATRICK.
A.D.
1. St. Patrick was born in North Britain, near the Clyde, . . . 376
or thereabouts.
2. In the sixteenth year of his age he and Lupita, his sister,
were made captive by Scotch marauders, and, being led into
Ireland, were sold to Milcho in Dalaradia, now Ulster, . . 392
3. After six years' captivity, and being twenty-one years
old, he returns to his home in Britain, . . . . . . . . . . 397
4. After three months he went to Aremorica with his parents,
and was taken by the Picts two months into captivity. He
was taken captive a third time, and taken to Bordeaux,
where he was set at liberty, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
5. Passing thence to Tours, he became a monk in the Monastery
of St. Martin, and after four years of monastic life
returned to the Island of Temar, which is supposed to be
the same as Ireland, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
6. St. Patrick was called by visions into Gaul, and proceeded
into Italy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
7. According to the customs of monks at that time, he spent
seven years in wanderings over mountains and through
islands, and, obeying the admonition of an angel, was
ordained priest by Bishop S. Senior, . . . . . . . . . . . 410
8. Having studied three years, St. Patrick is called by
visions into Ireland to preach the Gospel, . . . . . . . . 413
9. St. Patrick, through love of solitude, returns into
Britain to Valle Rosina, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
10. Being received at Antissiodorum by St. Amator,
A.D. 414, he remains there four years, and passes to
St. Germanus in the forty-second year of his age, . . . . . 418
11. Having spent nearly four years with St. Germanus,
St. Patrick departed for the Isle of Lerina, . . . . . . . 421
12. St. Patrick spent nine years in the Island of Lerina,
opposite Norbonne, and, knowing that the time for his
mission to Ireland was at hand, returned to Germanus
at Aries, now Orleans, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
13. Palladius returned from Ireland, his mission having
failed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
14. St. Patrick is sent by St. Celestine in Ireland, . . . . . 432
15. Being consecrated bishop by the Bishop of Tours, he bids
farewell to St. Germanus in passing through Gaul, and,
having landed on the shore of Leinster, baptizes Sinellum
in the autumn of the same year, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
16. St. Patrick proceeds to Ulster, preaches the faith to
Milcho, and makes many converts, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
17. St. Patrick preaches to King Leary at Tara, . . . . . . . . 436
18. St. Patrick returned to Rome, and sent St. Kranie and his
five companions to preach the Gospel, . . . . . . . . . . . 445
19. St. Patrick gives St. Bridget the veil in the fourteenth
year of her age, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
20. Armagh is made a metropolitan see, and councils are
celebrated, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
21. St. Patrick again visits Rome, probably for the confirmation
of his council, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
22. St. Patrick dies, the eighty-second year of his age, at
Down, attended by St. Bridget, who had, he was conscious,
foreknown the time of his death, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Some chronologies extend the life of St. Patrick by forty
or forty-five years.
23. The Confession of St. Patrick was written, . . . . . . . . 455
24. The Epistle to Coroticus, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
25. The Metrical Life of St. Patrick by St. Fiech, . . . . . . 493
26. The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick by St. McEvin, . . . . 510
27. The Life of St. Patrick by Jocelyn, . . . . . . . . . . . 1185