Chapter VI: Schools of the Fifth Century

I.--THE SCHOOLS OF ARMAGH 110
Emania 111
Daire 111
Patrick founds Armagh 112
Ecclesiastical Buildings at Armagh 113
St. Benignus 114
Death of Benignus 116
The _Book of Rights_ attributed to Benignus 116
The School of Armagh, primarily a great Theological Seminary 117
The _Moralia_ of St. Gregory the Great 117
Gildas the Wise 118
His _Destruction of Britain_ 119
English Students at Armagh 119
Churches and Schools of Armagh burned and plundered between
A.D. 670 and 1179 120
Imar O'Hagan 121
The _Book of Armagh_ 122
The Mac Moyres 124

II.--THE SCHOOL OF KILDARE 125
St. Brigid 125
St. Mathona 126
St. Ita 127
St. Brigid born at Faughart 128
Events of her marvellous history 129
Brigid's religious vows 130
Brigid founds Kildare 130
Brigid the "Mary of Ireland" 131
Monastery of Men at Kildare 132
St. Conlaeth 132
St. Ninnidhius 132
Great Church of Kildare 133
Six Lives of St. Brigid 133
St. Brogan Cloen 134
Cogitosus 135
Round Tower of Kildare 138
Perpetual fire of Kildare 138
Art of Illumination in the Monastic Schools of Kildare 139
The _Book of Leinster_ 140