Footnote 436: Fergustus Episcopus Scotiæ Pictus huic constituto a nobis promulgato subscripsi.—Haddan’s _Councils_, vol. ii. part i. p. 7. The epithet Pictus at this period implies that he was of the race of the Scottish Picts. Footnote 437: It is possible that Neachtan may have made up his quarrel with the Iona monks and retired to Iona, as we find there, at the end of a broad and elevated terrace near the present ruins, the remains of a burying-ground called Cill-ma-Neachtan, which marks the site of an oratory. Footnote 438: _Epist. ad Eustochium._ Footnote 439: _Collationes_, xviii. and xix.; Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. xix. Footnote 440: See Dupin’s _Ecclesiastical History_ for an abstract of this treatise, vol. iv. p. 18. Footnote 441: Isidore, _De Ecc. Off._, lib. ii. c. 16. Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. xli. Footnote 442: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iv. c. 28. _Vit. S. Cudbercti_, c. 17. Footnote 443: Bede, _Vit. S. Cudbercti_, c. 1. Footnote 444: Religio munda, et immaculata apud Deum et Patrem hæc est: visitare pupillos et viduas in tribulatione eorum, et immaculatum se custodire ab hoc sæculo.—Cap. i., 27. Footnote 445: Qui aliquando non populus, nunc autem populus Dei; qui non consecuti misericordiam, nunc autem misericordiam consecuti. Charissimi, obsecro vos tanquam advenas et peregrinos abstinere vos a carnalibus desideriis, quæ militant adversus animam.—Cap. ii. vv. 10, 11. Footnote 446: Nam et vicini et monachi, ad quos sæpe veniebat, Antonium videntes, _Deicolam_ nuncupabant; indultisque naturæ vocabulis, quidam ut filium, alii ut fratrem diligebant.—Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. xxxv. col. 129. Footnote 447: Non illa ardua et perfecta, quæ a paucis et peregregiis _Deicolis_ patrantur.—Martinus _de Vitæ honestæ Formula_: D’Achery, iii. 312. Footnote 448: Quicunque ergo se habitaculum Dei effici voluerit, humilem et quietum se facere contendat, ut non verborum aviditate et corporis flexibilitate, sed humilitatis veritate cognoscatur esse _Deicola_: cordis enim bonitas non verborum fictis indiget religionibus.—Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. xxxvii. col. 234. Footnote 449: Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 115; Fleury, l. 37, c. 27. Colgan supposes that _Deicola_ may be the Latin form of the Irish name of Dichuill, and this is usually assumed to be the case; but there is no authority for it, and no other analogy between the names than an accidental resemblance in appearance. Footnote 450: Peracto vero quadriennio, apparuit ei angelus Domini et dixit illi, Vade ad plebem Dei, id est, Eremitas et solitarios nudis pedibus et conversare cum eis, ut proberis per aliquot tempus. Et venit in solitudinem et mansit cum Eremitis per 8 annos.—Colgan, _Tr. Th._, p. 48, recté 52. Footnote 451: