Collections on Irish Church History; From the MSS of the Late V. Rev. Laurence F. Renehan, D.D., President of Maynooth College Volume 1 - Revised Edition, Paperback

• Release Date   9/13/2013
• ISBN-13   9781230087757 | 978-1-230-08775-7
• ISBN   1230087753 | 1-230-08775-3
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Laurence F. Renehan
• This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...abodeOf his missionary life, too, beyond the great fact of residing amongst his people, and zealously working out their salvation, very few details have been preserved. One act of episcopal authority mentioned by Hartry, author of the "Triumphalia Stae Crucis,"i de Dr. Oliver's "Collections," p. 252--"E latibulo nostro ubi frater modo est." 1 MS. E. 3, 15, T.C.D., quoted by King, p. 1358. i:'l'Rum=nAr.IA STE CnucIs.--The work cited ordinarily under the above title, is a MS. of 39 leaves in small folio. another work of 12 leaves, same size, is bound up with it, entitled "Synopsis illustrium virorum," etc. Both these works are cited by Harris (Ware's Bishops and Writers) with respect: he says "The officiating Romish priest of the parish of Holy Cross, did me the favour to lend them to me in 1733." The vol. was then, I suppose, in a. more perfect state than now in 1837, just a century after, when the Catholic archbishop of Cashel lent it to me for a year. Nearly every leaf is now considerably damaged, many are eaten away by time and abuse at the margin, some worn away in the middle. the corners of several leaves are either entirely lost or irrecoverably obliterated, and there are also some other passages in the middle of the page illegible from damp or the effects of time. Both vols. are written in an excellent, clear, legible hand by the author, John Malachy Hartry, a Cistercian friar, who after completing his studies in Spain, came to reside in Waterford, where he composed these and other works. Harris blunders downright against the very book he had in his hand. when he says "Hartry resided and was perhaps acting P.P. of Holy Cross." In the following...