Chapter XVI: The School of Bangor

I.--ST. COMGALL OF BANGOR 364
Birth and parentage 365
Comgall enters the Monastery of Fintan 366
He visits Clonmacnoise, and receives the priesthood 367
Description of Bangor 367
St. Columba visits Comgall at Bangor 368
The fame of Comgall attracts crowds to Bangor 369
Death of Comgall 370

II.--ST. COLUMBANUS 370
His early life 371
Goes to Cluaninis and places himself under the care of Sinell 372
He enters Bangor 372
Preaches the Gospel in Gaul 373
He buries himself in the depths of the forest 373
Increase of Disciples 374
Founds a monastery at Luxeuil 375
Columbanus and his Irish Monks banished from Luxeuil 376
They establish themselves at Bregentz 376
He founds the Monastic Church of Bobbio 378
Death of Columbanus 378
His writings 379
The _Bobbio Missal_ 380
The _Antiphonarium Benchorense_ 381

III.--DUNGAL 381
Theologian, astronomer and poet 381
Dungal was an Irishman 382
Probably educated in the School of Bangor 382
Dungal goes to France 382
His Letter to Charlemagne on the two solar eclipses said to have
taken place in A.D. 810 383
He opens a school at Pavia 385
The last struggle of Western Iconoclasm 385
The _Libri Carolini_ 386
Synod of Frankfort 386
The Council of Nice 387
The Paris Conference 388
Claudius of Turin 389
_Dungali Responsa contra perversas Claudii Taurinensis Episcopi
Sententias_ 390
Character of Dungal's writings 391
His death 392

IV.--ST. MALACHY 393
Sketch of his life 393
He rebuilds the monastery at Bangor 394
Becomes Bishop of Connor 394
Founds the _Monasterium Ibracense_ 395
Malachy transferred to the Primatial See 395
Difficulties in Armagh 395
Malachy honoured at Rome by Pope Innocent III. 396
Death at Clairvaux 397