Above : St. Egbert Picture On Paper Of the most celebrated Anglo-Saxon scholars and saints, many had studied in Ireland; among these were St. Egbert, the author of the first Anglo-Saxon mission to the Continent, and Willi-brod, the Apostle of the Frieslanders, who had resided twelve years in Ireland. From Ireland, also, came two English priests, both named Ewald, who in 690 went as missionaries to the German Saxons, and were martyred in Germany. The celebrated St. Chadd, regarded on account of his ... Read More

Above : Picture of Saint Columbanus (Right) Amongst the most illustrious of its pupils were St. Columbanus, St. Gall, and Dungal the Astronomer, and the great St. Malachy pre­sided over it in the twelfth century. The School of Clonmacnoise was founded by St. Ciaran in 544, and took rank as one of the greatest centres of 'earning in Europe. Alcuin, the foremost and most representative man of letters of his time, was a pupil there, and we have still a letter in which ... Read More