 | Henry Charles Lea - Celibacy - 1884 - 691 pages
...Synod. Ossoriens. (Wilkins. II. 502). IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. Peace to their shades I The pure Culdees "Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an...foot of Saxon monk was trod, Long ere her churchmen hy bigotry Were harred from wedlock's holy tie. ;Twas then that Aodh, famed afar, In lona preached... | |
 | John Archibald - Moray (Scotland) - 1893 - 430 pages
...Big-head.* THE CULDEE PERIOD. " The dark attired Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere y«t an island of her seas By foot of Saxon monk was trod." CAMPBELL. If we look upon the time between S. Columba's arrival in Britain and the ninth century as... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Charlemagne (Romances, etc.) - 1894 - 592 pages
...in his poem of Reullura, alludes to the married monks of lona : — " The pure Culdees Were Alhvn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island of her...foot of Saxon monk was trod, Long ere her churchmen hy bigotry Were barred from holy wedlock's tie. 'Twas then that Aodh", famed afar, In lona preached... | |
 | Clans - 1897 - 348 pages
...OF THE COLQUHOUX Co UK TRY. Peace to the shades—the pure Guidées Were Albyn's earliest Priests to God, Ere yet an island of her seas By foot of Saxon Monk was trod. Л|АШТ KKSSOG being the Patron Saint of the Colquhouns, I venture to hope the the following records... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Mythology - 1903 - 510 pages
...sancturary. Campbell, in his poem of Reullura, alludes to the married monks of lona : " The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island...monk was trod, Long ere her churchmen by bigotry Were barred from holy wedlock's tie. 'Twas then that Aodh, famed afar, In lona preached the word with power,... | |
 | Douglas Hyde - Irish literature - 1903 - 688 pages
...propagated in his line poem " Reulura," ijt^ "rcull-ur": — " Peace to their souls, the pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island of her seas by foot of Saxon monk was trod 1 " devoted to each day of the year, in connection with the name of some saint — an Irish one wherever... | |
 | Henry Owen - 1904 - 244 pages
...Peace to their shades. The pure Cnldees • • " Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, ' ',• Eire yet an island of her seas , •'/",' By foot of Saxon monk was trod. .. ' " ' ' ' •'• Campbell, Reullura. gious man was Enoch, but he got into the habit of going to... | |
 | Douglas Hyde - Irish literature - 1920 - 218 pages
...order. So much for Campbell's pretty lines in his Renlura:— " Peace to their sonls, the pure Culdeec Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island of her seas By foot of Saxon monk was I rod." t Angus, in Irish Aonghus, is generally pronounced /Kaeesh, and is sometimes well anglicised... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...Campbell, in his poem of "Reullura," alludes to the married monks of lona : ". . . The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island...monk was trod, Long ere her churchmen by bigotry Were barred from holy wedlock's tie. 'Twas then that Aodh, famed afar, In lona preached the word with power,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...sanctuary. Campbell, in his poem of 'Reullura', alludes to the married monks of lona: . . . The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island...monk was trod, Long ere her churchmen by bigotry Were barred from holy wedlock's tie. 'Twas then that Aodh, famed afar, In lona preached the word with power,... | |
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Peace to their shades ! the pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island of her seas By foot of Saxon monk was trod, Long ere her churchmen by bigotry Were barr'd from wedlock's holy tie. 
