Columbanus, who was alive and in Ireland at the time, refers to him in his epistle to Pope Gregory, in these terms,—‘Cæterum de episcopis illis quid judicas, interrogo, qui contra canones ordinantur, id est, quæstu: simoniacos et Giltas auctor pestes scripsistis.’—_Ep. ad S. Greg. Pap._ Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. 37, col. 262. Footnote 99: Cathmael was the baptismal name of Cadoc of Nantgarvan. See _Vita S. Cadoci_ in _Lives of Cambro-British Saints_, pp. 25-27. Footnote 100: _Vita S. Finniani_, apud Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 393. Footnote 101: Dr. Todd’s _Life of Saint Patrick_, p. 101. Footnote 102: Tandem Romam meditans, in Hiberniam reditum angelus Domini suasit, ad fidem post B. Patrici obitum neglectam restaurandam, etc.—Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 401. See also Dr. Todd’s remarks upon this subject in his _Life of Saint Patrick_, p. 101. Footnote 103: Martyrology of Donegal, p. 335. A list of these twelve apostles is given in the Life of St. Finnian. Footnote 104: The year is fixed by calculation from Adamnan’s data; see Reeves’s _Adamnan_, ed. 1874, p. 225. The summary of Saint Columba’s life in the introduction to this edition, and the notes, may be consulted for all the events of Saint Columba’s life. The subject is most exhaustively treated in Dr. Reeves’s great work. Footnote 105: See Dr. Reeves’s Note, p. 225. Adamnan alludes to his having been under the care of Cruithnechan, a priest, in B. iii. c. 3. Footnote 106: Adamnan alludes to this, B. ii. c. 1. Footnote 107: Adamnan alludes to his being under Gemman, B. ii. c. 26; see also Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 274. Footnote 108: