[Footnote 7: _Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore_, Oxford, 1890,
pp. 117-134.]

[Footnote 8: _Four Ancient Books of Wales_, i, 124.]

[Footnote 9: _Descriptive Catalogue of Materials for the History of
Great Britain,_ vol. i, p. 102.]

[Footnote 10: Forbes. _Kalendars_, s. v. Queranus; Bollandist _Acta_.]

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A HARMONY OF THE FOUR LIVES OF SAINT CIARAN


To the incidents of Ciaran's life VG prefixes--

I. _The Homiletic Introduction_ (VG I)

not found in any of the Latin Lives.

=A.= Ciaran was born A.D. 515. The first section of his life, his
Childhood and Boyhood, may have covered the first ten or twelve years
of his life--say in round numbers 515-530. Fifteen incidents of this
period are recorded, which are found in the Lives as under--

LA LB LC VG