“Monastic life, traditionally held to have been imported from Egypt, flourished across the Irish Sea, and irish travellers quickly came under its influence. Saint Enda, after returning from Candida Casa (Whithorn), founded his monastery on Aran Island, giving Ireland what was probably its first monastery and also setting the direction to life in seclusion for many centuries to come. [...]The primary purpose of these translations has been to present early irish monastic documents to as wide a reading public as possible in the hope that their doctrinal content will become more widely known, understood, and used.” —“Introduction”
Introduction RULES The Rule of Ailbe The Rule of Comghall The Rule of Colmcille The Rule of Ciarán The Rule of the Grey Monks The Rule of Cormac Mac Ciolionáin The Rule of Carthage An Incomplete Fragment The Rule of the Céli Dé The Rule of Tallaght WRITINGS, LITANIES, AND HYMNS Testimony to the Monastery of Sinchell The Younger The Homily of Cambrai Fragment A Treatice on The Eucharest The Alphabet of Devotion Litany of the Trinity Litany of Jesus Christ Litany of Our Lady Invocation of Saint Michael Latin Hymns Bibliography Biographical Sketch
Item Number: BKLP682 Publication Data: Kalamazoo, MI/Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1996 Format: softcover Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.5 cm × 13.9 cm × 1.2 cm Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 0‒87907‒662‒3
