The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick

[Frontispiece: Images of Saint Columba, Saint Patrick, and Saint Brigida, Taken from the Spicilegium Sanctorum, and engraven at Paris, A.D. 1629, by Messingham.]

THE MOST ANCIENT - LIVES OF SAINT PATRICK; - INCLUDING - THE LIFE BY JOCELIN, - HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED IN AMERICA, - AND - HIS EXTANT WRITINGS.

Illustrated with the Most Ancient Engravings OF OUR GREAT NATIONAL SAINT;

WITH A PREFACE AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. - BY - REV. JAMES O'LEARY, D.D.

TO THE RIGHT REV. T. W. CROKE, D.D., Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, HOPING THAT HE MAY YET BE SET DOWN AS The St. Patrick of New Zealand, FROM HIS FORMER PUPIL, COLABORER, AND COMPANION, J. O'LEARY.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Images of Saint Columba, Saint Patrick, and Saint Brigida, Taken from the Spicilegium Sanctorum, and engraven at Paris, A.D. 1629, by Messingham....... Frontispiece - The Saint Patrick of Ancient Ages - The Saint Patrick of Medieval Times - The Saint Patrick of Our Own Century

PREFACE.

THE CONFESSION OF ST. PATRICK.

THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOKS OF THE BISHOP ST. PATRICK.