posed mission from Rome, 24, 25; preaching of, 26; Breastplate, 34; evangelical doctrine preached by, 36; 'family' of, 47.
Picts, missions to, 54.
Prosper of Aquitaine, 15.
Saints, three classes of, 44.
Samthann, abbess, 94.
Scotland, name of, 57.
Scribes in eighth century, 131.
Scriptures, Celtic revision of, 132; vernacular translation of, 133; esteemed by the Irish, 134.
Secularization of the Church, 152.
Senan, Saint, 90.
Soul-friend, see Anmchara.
Supremacy of the pope rejected, 115.
Tara, 29; desertion of, 107.
Teaching of Irish Church, 66.
Teltown, synod of, 56.
Tonsure, 119, sq.
Transubstantiation, 173.
Tribal system, 27, 45, 56.
Trim, synod of, 186.
Tuam, archbishopric of, 180.
Turgesius, 142.
Virgil the Geometer, 131.
William the Conqueror, 159.
Women, ministry of, 89, sq.; Columba's objection to, 89.
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