Twenty Tales of Irish Saints
Title | Twenty Tales of Irish Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Curtayne |
Publisher | Sophia Institute Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1928832385 |
Alice Curtayne has collected stories that reflect not only the holiness but also the gaiety of the saints -- appealing to readers of all ages -- and she tells them with the poetry and feeling that mark the work of every true Irish storyteller.
A Dictionary of Irish Saints
Title | A Dictionary of Irish Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Pádraig Ó Riain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781846823183 |
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Professor Pádraig Ó Riain's Dictionary of Irish Saints is intended to serve as a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a Preface, List of Sources and Introduction, and is followed by comprehensive Indices of Parishes, Other Places (mainly townlands), Alternate (mainly Anglicised) Names, Subjects, and Feastdays. Professor Ó Riain's Dictionary has been described as 'an astonishingly comprehensive, intelligent and well-organized work'; it is unlikely to be superseded for many decades to come.
Irish Saints
Title | Irish Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Reilly |
Publisher | Wings |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780517368336 |
The trials and successes of the twelve Irish saints including Ireland's Patron Saint Patrick, Saint Brigid, who founded Ireland's first community of sisters, and many others who were either canonized or saintly laypersons. A classic volume providing insight into the facts and legends of these remarkable people.
Isle of the Saints
Title | Isle of the Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa M. Bitel |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2019-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501711776 |
Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Saint Patrick Retold
Title | Saint Patrick Retold PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Flechner |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2021-03-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691217467 |
Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick's career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.
Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland
Title | Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Tomie De Paola |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Catholics |
ISBN | 9780823409242 |
Relates the life and legends of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
Life of Saint Columba, Founder of Hy
Title | Life of Saint Columba, Founder of Hy PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Adamnan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Christian saints |
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