Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban, Volume 2Douglas, 1877 - Scotland |
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abbacy abbot of Iona Abernethy Adamnan afterwards Aidan Alban anchorite Andrews Annals apostle appears Armagh Bede belonged bishop blessed Book of Armagh Brechin brethren Britons Brude called canons Cele cell Celtic century Christ Christian Chron clergy clerics coärb Colman Colum Cille Columba Columban Church Columban monks Columcille Conall Gulban Conmael connection Cudberct Culdees Cumbria Dalriada Danes death dedicated to St Deicola diocese districts Dunkeld Easter ecclesiastical episcopal Firth founded Gaelic Hexham Hist holy honour Ireland Irish Calendar Irish Church island Isles Jocelyn Keledei Kentigern king king of Dalriada kingdom land legend Lindisfarne lived Loch Lord monas monastery Monastic Church northern Northumbria oratory pagan Palladius Patrick Pictish Picts Picts and Scots possession presbyters priest probably province Reeves Regulus reign relics Roman Rome rule Saint says Scotland Scottish secular Servanus shrine southern Picts stone teries termed Tighernac tion Tirechan tribe Wilfrid word
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Page 235 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
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Page 8 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Page 145 - ... would seem beyond the power of all human endurance. And still in all these he was beloved by all ; for a holy joy ever beaming on his face revealed the joy and gladness with which the Holy Ghost filled his inmost soul.
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Page 35 - And he said to them, It is permitted to you that some one of you go under the earth of this island to consecrate it. Odhran arose quickly and thus spake, If you accept me, said he, I am ready for that.
Page 26 - Church commemorations ; for, by his word and example, he with anxious care taught their nation, — that of the Scots, to wit, — the orthodox faith, although they had for a long time previously believed in Christ. Before his arrival, the Scots had, as teachers of the faith and administrators of the Sacraments, priests only, or monks, following the rite of the primitive Church.