As our space precludes a literal translation of this paper, a summary may be acceptable to the reader. On the 24th of October, 1492, died at Ivrea, in St. Antony’s Hospice for Pilgrims, Blessed Thaddeus, an Irish bishop, whose body was deposited under the high altar of the cathedral, in a shrine over the relics of the holy patron, St. Eusebius. At the time of death a brilliant light was seen round his bed, and at the same moment to the Bishop of Ivrea there appeared a man of venerable mien, clothed in pontifical robes. Several other miracles were also wrought through his intercession. The papers found with him showed he was an Irish bishop, and these, as well as other documents proving his great sanctity, religiously kept in the episcopal archives, were destroyed by fire in the seventeenth century. In an old parchment, written in Gothic letters, still preserved in the archives of the cathedral church, are these lines: ’Neath marble tombs, in this the virgin’s shrine The bones of many a saint in peace recline; Here martyred . . . . . Thaddeus there. From Erin’s shore he came, A bishop, of M’Carthy’s royal name. At whose behest were wondrous cures oft made. Still Latium, Genoa, invoke his aid. Dying, he mourned that not on Irish soil, Where sped his youth, should close his earthly toil: Nor Cloyne, nor Kerry, but Ivrea owns (For God so willed) the saintly bishop’s bones. ’T is meet that they in marble shrine encased Should be within the great cathedral placed. Like Christ, whose tomb was for another made, He in Eusebius’ cenotaph is laid. Soon sacred prodigies his power attest, And all the Earth proclaims him pious, blest. O ye who hither come, our saint assail With prayers and votive gifts; nor, traveller, fail To greet with reverence the holy dead. Since Christ was born a thousand years had fled, Four hundred then and ninety-two beside Had passed away, when St. Thaddeus died. When Dr. Murray received the Bishop of Ivrea’s letter, he placed it in the hands of the late venerated President of Maynooth College, from whose MSS. it is now copied, together with the very literal translation of the verses made by one of the junior students at the time. Dr. Renehan undertook to collect all the notices of Blessed Thaddeus in our Irish annals, and to give the best answers he could to the bishop’s questions. He even visited Ivrea in the summer of 1850, in the hope of finding traditional records of the life of Blessed Thaddeus, but to no purpose. He found the task more difficult than might be expected. All the knowledge regarding the saint’s family, see, etc., that can be gathered from Irish or British sources is found in these few lines from Ware on the Bishops of Cloyne: