for daily reading.[2]

[1] Moore, Hist. of Ireland, i. 266.

[2] Healy, 379; Stokes (M.) 2, 118. Ergo quotidie jejunandum
est, sicut quotidie orandum est, quotidie laborandum, quotidie
est legendum.


The monasteries of Luxeuil, Bobio, and St. Gall,
founded by him and his companions on their mission in
Gaul and Italy, became the homes of the most famous
conventual libraries in the world--a result surely traceable
to the example set by the Irish ascetics, and to the tradition
they established.[1]

[1] A ninth century catalogue of St. Gall mentions thirty-one
volumes and pamphlets in the Irish tongue--Prof. Pflugk-Harttung,
in R. H. S. (N. S.), v. 92. Becker names only thirty, p. 43. At
Reichenau, a monastery near St. Gall, also famous for its
library, there were "Irish education, manuscripts, and
occasionally also Irish monks." "One of the most ancient
monuments of the German tongue, the vocabulary of St. Gall,
dating from about 780, is written in the Irish character."


Other Irish monks are better known for their literary
attainments than for missionary enterprise. St. Cummian,
in a letter written about 634, displays much knowledge of
theological literature, and a good deal of knowledge of a