Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum; Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and ScholarsHealy, John
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Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum; Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars
Healy, John
Education -- Ireland -- History
III.--DUNGAL 381
Theologian, astronomer and poet 381
Dungal was an Irishman 382
Probably educated in the School of Bangor 382
Dungal goes to France 382
His Letter to Charlemagne on the two solar eclipses said to have
taken place in A.D. 810 383
He opens a school at Pavia 385
The last struggle of Western Iconoclasm 385
The _Libri Carolini_ 386
Synod of Frankfort 386
The Council of Nice 387
The Paris Conference 388
Claudius of Turin 389
_Dungali Responsa contra perversas Claudii Taurinensis Episcopi
Sententias_ 390
Character of Dungal's writings 391
His death 392
IV.--ST. MALACHY 393
Sketch of his life 393
He rebuilds the monastery at Bangor 394
Becomes Bishop of Connor 394
Founds the _Monasterium Ibracense_ 395
Malachy transferred to the Primatial See 395
Difficulties in Armagh 395
Malachy honoured at Rome by Pope Innocent III. 396
Death at Clairvaux 397
CHAPTER XVII.
THE SCHOOL OF CLONENAGH.
I.--ST. FINTAN 398
Churches founded round the base of the Slieve Bloom mountains 398
Clonenagh 398
Fintan's _Rule_ 401
St. Comgall a pupil of the School of Clonenagh 402
Miracles of St. Fintan 403
Fintan, "Father of the Irish Monks" 404
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