CHAPTER VI.

SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY.

I.--THE SCHOOLS OF ARMAGH 110

Emania 111

Daire 111

Patrick founds Armagh 112

Ecclesiastical Buildings at Armagh 113

St. Benignus 114

Death of Benignus 116

The _Book of Rights_ attributed to Benignus 116

The School of Armagh, primarily a great Theological Seminary 117

The _Moralia_ of St. Gregory the Great 117

Gildas the Wise 118

His _Destruction of Britain_ 119

English Students at Armagh 119

Churches and Schools of Armagh burned and plundered between

A.D. 670 and 1179 120

Imar O'Hagan 121

The _Book of Armagh_ 122

The Mac Moyres 124

II.--THE SCHOOL OF KILDARE 125

St. Brigid 125

St. Mathona 126

St. Ita 127

St. Brigid born at Faughart 128

Events of her marvellous history 129

Brigid's religious vows 130

Brigid founds Kildare 130

Brigid the "Mary of Ireland" 131

Monastery of Men at Kildare 132

St. Conlaeth 132

St. Ninnidhius 132

Great Church of Kildare 133

Six Lives of St. Brigid 133

St. Brogan Cloen 134

Cogitosus 135

Round Tower of Kildare 138

Perpetual fire of Kildare 138

Art of Illumination in the Monastic Schools of Kildare 139

The _Book of Leinster_ 140

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