Ciaran founded Clonmacnois on the Shannon, the monastic school that became one of early Ireland’s great centres of learning, and his countrymen ranked him close to Brigit in reverence. R. A. S. Macalister translates three Latin lives and the Irish life of the saint, sets them side by side in a harmony, and annotates the legends, names and family traditions they preserve.
Source material for students of Irish monasticism and early Christian hagiography, carefully introduced and annotated. Download the free EPUB.