E-text prepared by Stacy Brown, Anna Tuinman, Bethanne M. Simms, Ted Garvin, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's Note: In the genealogical tree in Additional Note B, and a few other locations in the text, dagger symbols have been replaced with +. A character following a caret sign (^) is superscripted. Translations of Christian Literature. Series V Lives of the Celtic Saints S^T BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S LIFE OF S^T MALACHY OF ARMAGH by H. J. LAWLOR, D.D., LITT.D. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The Macmillan Company. London New York 1920 Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Brunswick St., Stamford St., S.E. 1, and Bungay, Suffolk. CONTENTS PAGE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO vii NAMES OF IRISH PERSONS AND PLACES x INTRODUCTION xii LIFE OF ST. MALACHY 1 LETTERS OF ST. BERNARD 131 SERMONS OF ST. BERNARD ON THE PASSING OF MALACHY 141 ADDITIONAL NOTES:-- A.--ST. BERNARD'S DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF THE IRISH CHURCH 161 B.--THE HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF THE COARBS OF PATRICK 164 C.--MALACHY'S CONTEST WITH NIALL 167 APPENDIX 171 INDEX 172 PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO A. T.C.D. MS. F. 4, 6, containing the _Vita S. Malachiae_ and a portion of _Sermo_ ii. imbedded therein. Cent. xiii.; copied from a much earlier exemplar. AA.SS. _Acta Sanctorum._ A.F.M. _Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters_, ed. J. O'Donovan, 1851. A.I. Annals of Inisfallen, in O'Conor, _Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores_, 1814-1826, vol. ii. A.L.C. _Annals of Loch Cé_, ed. W. M. Hennessy (R.S.), 1871. A.T. _Annals of Tigernach_ (so called: see J. MacNeill in _Eriu_, vii. 30), ed. W. Stokes, in _Revue Celtique_, xvi.-xviii. A.U. _Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annals of Senat_, ed. W. M. Hennessy and B. MacCarthy, 1887-1901. Adamnan. The Life of St. Columba, written by Adamnan, ed. W. Reeves (Irish Archæological and Celtic Society), 1857. Archdall. M. Archdall, _Monasticon Hibernicum_, 1786: the earlier part ed. by P. F. Moran, 1873. C.M.A. _Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin_, ed. J. T. Gilbert (R.S.), 1884. _Cant._ S. Bernardi Sermones in Cantica, in _P.L._ clxxxiii. 779 ff. (1879): English Translation by S. J. Eales, _The Life and Works of St. Bernard_, vol. iv., 1896. Colgan, _A.S.H._ J. Colgan, _Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae_, Lovanii, 1645, tom. i. D.A.I. The Dublin Annals of Inisfallen, Royal Irish Academy MS. 23, F. 9.