An CreideamhThis book seeks to illustrate the type of literature that shaped and influenced the Irish people's faith over the centuries. It is intended as a cornucopia of Catholic writing, a skirl around the kind of books and journals that graced Irish priest's libraries over the years. Outlined in chronological order it gives the full text of the Confession of St. Patrick, the Life of St. Columbanus, an ancient Irish tract on the mass; extracts from the Confessions of St. Augustine, the Irish Annals, and the fiction of Canon Sheehan; some theology from St. Thomas Aquinas, from 'A Handbook of Moral Theology', and the doctrine of Purgatory from an old Maynooth theologian; historical or contemporary accounts from all centuries, all the way from Tertullian, through Lough Derg in the 15th century, the Cromwellian Wars of the 17th century, to the social and economic teachings of the Church in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Edict of Milan | 24 |
Confession | 48 |
Monastic Rule | 70 |
Life of St Columbanus | 83 |
The Irish Bishops of Lindisfarne | 116 |
An Ancient Irish Litany from the Book of Leinster | 130 |
The Life of Charlemagne | 143 |
Common terms and phrases
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