8. Our holy bishop, though thus descended from the first monarch of our island, wished, when journeying from Rome, to enter as a pilgrim the public hospital of St. Anthony in Ivrea, and there, in the true evangelical spirit, rejoiced in being reckoned the poorest of the poor. Heaven, however, has decreed that the humble shall be exalted; and no sooner had the unknown traveller closed his eyes to this world, than a divine light filled the room in which he lay; several prodigies awakened the devotion of the faithful, and proclaimed his sanctity; and the clergy and laity in solemn procession bore his hallowed remains to the cathedral church, and numbered him amongst the patrons of that ancient see. Thus, again, was Dr. Thaddeus true to the traditions of his family; for, besides his royal descent, he could boast of the higher and nobler lineage of sanctity. In the Martyrology of Donegal we find the names of two members of the family whose festivals were celebrated on January 16th and September 6th. Colgan, too, speaks of a _Saint Mecharius_, whose life he had prepared for publication, and whose feast was marked for the 13th of November (_AA. SS._, pag. 756). Dr. Reeves also informs us that a St. _Machar_, better known by the Irish appellation of Mochonna, was sent by St. Columba with twelve companions to preach the Gospel to the Picts, and subsequently became the patron saint of Aberdeen (_Adamman's Columba_, pag. 246, 289, 299, etc.). On a fly-leaf of the original MS. of the Martyrology of Donegal, in the handwriting of O'Clery or Colgan, a Saint _Murro_ is commemorated, with the addition, "_id est, Machare, seu Meacharius_", and the interesting fact is further commemorated: "quod feras bestias subjugavit et triduo defunctum ad vitam revocavit" (_Martyr. Doneg._, I. A. S., xlvi.). We do not wish, however, to leave unanswered the difficulty which the words of Ware present against our interpretation of this holy bishop's name. He expressly styles this bishop "_Thady M'Carthy_, by some called _Mechar_". Here then we must remark that Ware does not identify these names; and the name _Mechar_, which, as Ware acknowledges, was by some authorities given to this bishop, is proved by the monuments of Ivrea to have been his _true name_. What then was the origin of Ware's mistake? We learn from the _Monumenta Vaticana_ (pag. 503), that there was about this time a Thaddeus Mac Carryg "_iniquitatis filius_", who endeavoured to intrude himself into the see of Ross, and who is erroneously ranked by Ware amongst the bishops of that see (see _Record_, No. iii., December, 1864). As that name resembles _Mac Carrha_ or _Mac Carthaigh_, the Irish forms of _Mac Carthy_, it seems not improbable that Ware, by one of his so-frequent errors, confounded our holy Bishop Thaddeus with that iniquitous usurper (see _Dublin Review_, April, 1865, p. 384).