- BAANNES(Badvyny tov pumapdv) or BaANES, a Paulician, mentioned in the Greek form of abjuration (ap. Cotelier, Patres Apost. i.
- BACCHUSmartyr, a Roman officer martyred with Sergius under Maximian (supposed to be a mistake for Maximin), the latter at Rasap
- BACCHYLUSor BACCHYLIDES (liber Synod.), bishop of Corinth at the end of the 2nd century, who-took a leading part, in conjunction
- BACHIARIUSa monk of the early part of the 5th century, the author of two short treatises printed in the Biblioth. Vet. Patr. of Ga
- BACOLAa Mercian abbot, who attests charters of Offa in 777 (Kemble, C. D. i. 159, 179) and later. (S.]
- BACULAan abbot who was present at the death of Wilfrid (Eddius, V. Wilfr. 63). [S.]
- BADENOTHthe name of " Badenoth episcopus " is attached to a Kentish charter of 765 (Kemble, C. D. i. 137; Mon. Angi. i. 166). Th
- BADOHEARD[BreapuHEarp.] BADUDEGN (A. S. Beadotheng), a serving
- BADULF(BaLpuLr, Bapwir, BraDULFr), was consecrated to the see of Whithern, July 17, 791 at Hearrahaleh by Eanbald, archbishop
- BADUVINI(1) (Beapwin, Bapewrne), the first bishop of Elmham in Kast Anglia, aps
- BAEDA[Berpa.]
- BAEDAN(BAETAN, BAOTAN) is probably only a different form of Baithen. Several saints appear under this name.
- BAEREa Kentish abbot, witnesses a charter of Sigiraed, between 759 and 765 (Kemble, C. D. i. 139; Mon. Angi. i. 163). [S.]
- BAETHALLACHBp. of Ath-truim (Trim) —Oct. 5. In Mart. Doneg. (by Todd and Reeves, p. 267) he is brother of Corbmac and successor of
- BAGLAN, STson of Dingad, to whom some churches in Carnarvonshire and Glamorganshire are dedicated (Rees' Welsh Saints, 275).
- BAITHENa name of many forms and very frequent occurrence in Irish hagiologies. Colgan (Acta SS. p. 369, n. 3, and p. 437, n. 1)
- BALAAMITESthe name is derived from the allusion in Rev. ii. 14. There were in the chureh of Pergamus those who held "the doctrine
- BALANUS(BALLOIN, BALLONUS)— Sept. 38. Given in the Table of Mart. Doneg., by Mar. O'Gorm., Cath. Maguire, &c. He is said by
- BALDRED(BALTHERUS), H.—March 6, A.D. 608. After the translation of St. Kentigern to the society of angels, in A.D. 530, at the
- BALSAMUSa mythological name among the Spanish Priscillianists, according to Jerome [BarBeLo]. It is evidently Beel-Samin, "the L
- BALTHERE(1) A famous anchoret who lived at Tynningham in East Lothian. He died in 756, on the 6th of March (Sim. Dun. Chron. ad
- BANBANInlIrish hagiology there are sevetal Banubans usually given, but two at least of these are probably the same person, Ban
- BAPTISMin the sense now given to it, expressed in the N. T. by Barrioua, not Bamric- és: in Latin more commonly by Baptismus th
- BAR-COCHBA(825313 53), Simon, the celebrated leader of the Jewish insurrection against Hadrian in A.D, 132, or, according to some
- BARACHUSBishop of Bacatha, or Metro-come, in Palaestina Tertia, in the middle of the 4th century. When Justinian at the request
- BARADATUS(VARADATUS), a celebrated hermit near Antioch, in the 5th century. After many years of utter seclusion in a cell so smal
- BARAEAS(Bapatas), mentioned as one of Manes' disciples in the Greek form of abjuration (ap. Cotelier, Patres Apost. i. 545). [E
- BARBELITAKHone of the names given to certain Ophitic Gnostics (Epiph. i. 85 B), taken from BARBELO, a personage in their mythology.
- BARBELO(Bap£nA@ Iren., Epiph., Philast., Pist. Soph., Hier.; -p# Epiph. as an alternative, 92 A, and similarly the Epitome, p.
- BARCOPH[Barcappas.]
- BARDAISAN(¥9S93; Bapdncdyns, also -dic-, also —o1dvns ; Bardesanes), a Syrian theologian, commonly reckoned among Gnostics. He wa
- BARDESANES[Barpalsan.] BARLAAM, said to have been a monk in
- BARLAAMor BARLAHA, martyr, an uneducated countryman, martyred either at Antioch or at Caesarea in Cappadocia under Diocle- tian
- BARNABAS[See Dicr. or THE BIBLE, oh Gh]|
- BARNIC, STa Celtic bishop, whose buriaiplace in Cornwall is thus given by William of Worcester, 113: "S. Barnic episcopus, called
- BAROESbishop of Edessa, to which see he was translated from Haran, by the Emperor Constantius, A.D. 361, Chronic. Aitallahan,
- BARRFINN(latinized Barrindus, Barinthus, and known also as Finbar and Findbar). Under its various forms this name is frequent in
- BARRINTHUSwas a disciple of St. Brendon. (Lanigan, Eccl. Hist. Ir. ii. 35, 219, 221.) [BaRRFINN, 2.] Wedel
- BARROCWUWS, STa disciple of St. Cadoc, in the 6th century. When Cadoc sailed from the island Echni ('qui modo Holma dicitur," 2. e, Fl
- BARRY(BARRIUS, BARRINDUS, BARROCUS, BARR, FINBAR)—Sept. 25. This saint has a Scotch and an Irish history. According to the fo
- BARSANIANSone of the minor sects into which the Monophysites fell asunder in Egypt during the latter part of the 5th century. 'Joa
- BARSANUPHIANSan obscure subdivision of the Monophysites, taking their name from Barsanuphius, an Egyptian pretender to the episcopal
- BARSANUPHIUSa solitary of Palestine, an Egyptian by birth, in the reign of Justinian, c. 540. According to the story related by Evag
- BARSUMAS(the Eutychian), an archimandrite or abbot of a Syrian monastery, who warmly espoused the cause of Eutyches. When, in 44
- BARTHENOS(BapOevdés, -Oevves), the name which Epiphanius gives to Noah's wife (i. 82 D). Scipio Gambatus (Archiv. Vet. Test, p. 1
- BARTHOLOMEW([Sce Dict. oF THE
- BARUCH, GNOSTIC BOOK OF[JusTINUS THE HERETIC. ]
- BASIL[Basrxrvs.] BASILAS. [Basixtus of Ancyra, p. 281.)
- BASILEUS[Basiuius, Martyr, p. 298.]
- BASILIANIa name given to the Nestorians from Basil of Irenopolis, the Cilician, in the Scholia on the books de Lecl. Hierarch., a
- BASILICUSa Marcionite of the second century, named with Potitus by Rhodon (ap. Eus. H, 7, v. 13. 3) as one of those who maintaine
- BASILIDES(BaoiActins), the founder of one of the semi-Christian sects, commonly called Gnostic, which sprang up in the early part
- BASILISCUSmartyr, bishop of Comana, martyred with Lucianus at Nicomedia under Maximin, A.D. 312 (Pallad. Dial. de V. St. Chrys. xi
- BASILIUS(BawiAeios), a disciple of the Paulician Sergius, mentioned in the Greek form of adjuration ap. Cotelier's Patres Apost.
- BASSIANUSbishop of Laudae, and a saint of the Roman calendar. He was one of the bishops who condemned the Arian Palladius at the
- BATH-ENOS([Barruxnos.]
- BATRACHITAEPhilaster (11) mentions a sect who worshipped the frogs of the plague before the Exodus, thinking so to appease God's an
- BAUDEMUNDUSa monk of the monastery of Elno (St. Amand) in Hainault, c. 680. He was a disciple of the sainted bishop of Maestricht,
- BAYAV.—Nov. 1 or 3, St. Baya, or Beya, or Vey, who is venerated at Dunbar in Lothian, is said to have inhabited the island o
- BEADUHEARD(1), an officer of Brihtric, king of Wessex, killed at Dorchester in 787 by the Danes (Ethelwerd, Chiron. M. H. B. 509).
- BEADURN([Bapvvin1.]
- BEANB. and C.—Oct. 26. Except that this saint was venerated at Wester Foulis and at Kinkell in Strathearn, Scotland, nothing
- BEATUSpresbyter and abbot in Spain, an opponent of the Adoptionism of Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo, in the 8th century. [Ap
- BECANThere are several saints of this name.
- BECCor BEG, son of De—Oct. 12. His fatner was De, Deaghaidh, or Dagaeus, but his race is disputed. He seems to have been att
- BECGAor BEGGA, d. of Gabhran, V.— Feb. 10. It is said (Colgan, Zr. Thawm. 121) that when St. Patrick was in East Meath, he le
- BEDAmore correctly BarpA. (1) THE VENERABLE. Bede was born on the estate given by Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria, to Benedict
- BEDWINIa Celtic bishop, whose name occurs in the stories about Arthur, is said to have lived at Cellwig. He is conjecturally co
- BEG-BILEson of Tigernach — Oct. 12. Being descended from Conall Gulban, this Ivish saint was related to St. Columba, and lived a
- BEGABaza, Beya, Becea, Ber, S. A Cumbrian saint of whom nothing is clearly known, and.whom the endeavours of the hagiographe
- BEGHAV.—Oct. 31, circ. a.p. 660—also called St. Bez and St. Begagh. She left her home in Ireland on hearing of the flourishin
- BEGUa nun of Hackness, in Yorkshire, for more than thirty years, who is said to have had a supernatural intimation of the de
- BELLATORfl. c. 550, a presbyter, friend of Cassiodorus, at whose request he wrote commentaries on Ruth, appended by Cassiodorus
- BEMA[ManeEs.] BENEDICTUS OF ANIANE. This "se-
- BENEDICTUS BISCOPcalled by Eddius (V. Wilfridi, c. 3) Biscop Baducing, was, by birth, anoble Englishman, descended—if he be identical wit
- BENEDICTUS FOSSATENSIS(Benedict of St. Maur), abbat of the monastery of St. Maur des Fossez (Monasterium Fossatense), was one of the monastic
- BENEDICTUS MEDIOLANENSIS(Benedict of Milan) was a contemporary of Benedict of Aniane, and, like him on a smaller scale, was instrumental in the
- BENEDICTUS OF NURSIASt. Benedict, abbat of Monte Cassino ("Abbas Casi- nensis"'), called "Patriarch of the monks of the West," lived during
- BENIGNUSThis name appears in both Scotch and Irish hagiography.
- BENJAMINa monk of Scetis, in the 4th century, of great repute for effecting miraculous cures, (Pall. Hist. Laus. 13; Soz. Hist.
- BENUSan abbat among the monks of Tabenna, in the 4th century. He was famed for his gentleness. (Pall. Hist. Laus. 49; Ruff. d
- BEOAEDH(BEDA, BEATUS), bishop of Ard-carna, in Roscommon. March 8, A.D. 524, He was the son of Olcan, son of Coman, of the race
- BEOANIn his Life of St. Fursey, Colgan (Acta SS. p. 90) refers to several saints of this name, but only two can be treated wi
- BEOGor BEOCC—Oct. 25. This is probably the St. Dabeoc (latinized Beoanus) who, when living in a "penal cave" on the island i
- BEOGHNabbat of Bangor, in the county of*
- BEONNA(Br1yna, Bynwna) (1), a Mercian witness to charters about 730 (Kemble, C. D. i. 101). (2) A Mercian abbat, who attests c
- BEORCHTGYTH, BERTHGYTHan
- BERCHTHUN(1) (Beintuunvs.) The deacon of John of Beverley, bishop of York. He was abbot of John's monastery of " Indeyauuda," or
- BERCTGILSalso named Bonifacius, a Kentish man, appointed by archbishop Honorius, of Canterbury, the third bishop of the East Angl
- BERECTUS(Berercurrr, Berixrus).
- BERHTWALD, BEORTHTWALD(BRIHTWALD, BEORHTWALD, BEORTHWALDUS), the 8th archbishop of Canterbury. According to Bede he was abbot of Reculver, and
- BERNACHUS, ST(Brynach), of Wales, in the 5th century, said to have been the instructor of Brychan, king of Brecknock. His life is giv
- BERNUINIBerwin. (1) A nephew ot Wilfrid and a clerk to whom he commended the Isle of Wight, giving him the priest Hiddila to pre
- BERON([Hippotyrvs.]
- BERONICIANUSbishop of Tyre, appointed |
- BERTHABercra, wife of Ethelbert, king of Kent. She was daughter of Caribert, king of Paris, by his wife Ingoberga (Greg. Turon
- BERTHGWYNan early bishop of Llandaff. {Liber Landavensis, 166, 431, 626; but see Stubbs's Registrum Sacrum, 156 on these lists.)
- BERWYN, ST(or GeRWyy), a son of Brychan, who is said to have settled in Cornwall, out the name is difficult to identify, unless he
- BERYLLUSbishop of Bostra,® in Arabia, in the middle of the 3rd century, known in his day as one of the most learned teachers of
- BESCNApriest, and chaplain to St. Patrick. "The priest Bescna, sweet his verses, the chaplain of the son of Alprann," is given
- BESSARION(BISARION), an Egyptian monk in the 4th century. Very many sayings and wonders are recorded of him. (Pall. Hist. Laus. 1
- BETTIan Englishman, one of the four priests sent by Finan to the Middle Angles as missionaries, after the baptism of Peada in
- BEUNO, STson of Hywgi, or Bugi, and a contemporary of St. Kentigern, to whom he was nearly related. He founded a religious societ
- BIGSECHof Cill-bigsiche (Kilbixy), in West Meath—June 28 (Mart. Doneg.)—but Mart. Tall. calls her "Bigesgi Virg." She was of
- BILLFRITHan anchoret and goldsmith, who bound the copy of the Gospels written by bishop Kadfrith (Sim. Dun. Hist. Dun, ii. 12; AA
- BIRINUS, STthe first bishop of the West Saxons. He is said by Bede (H. £. iii. 7) to have undertaken, by the advice of pope Honoriu
- BISIthe fourth bishop of the'East Angles at Dunwich; consecrated by Theodore, as successor to Boniface, in 669 or 670. He wa
- BITEUSi.e. Mobiu, abbat of Inis-cumscraigh (Inishcourcey, Ines, and now Inch, co. Down; Reeves, Eccl. Antig., pp. 44, 92)—July
- BLADUS, STsaid to have been a bishop in the Isle of Man.
- BLAECCAthe "praefectus" or reeve of Lincoln, converted, with all his family, by Pau-
- BLAISE[Buastvs.]
- BLANDINAmartyr, a female slave, reck-
- BLASIUSmartyr, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, whose flesh was scored with iron combs, and who was finally beheaded, with two boy
- BLASTUSa Quartodeciman Montanist at Rome about the reign of Commodus (180-192),
- BLATHthe Irish for a flower, a beautiful thing, or grace, favour. Martyrologies give several virgins of this name. Thus on Ja
- BLATHMAC(BLAITHMAIC). In the 8th and 9th centuries this appears to have been a common name in Ireland. (See the Annals of the Fo
- BLESILLAeldest daughter of Paula and sister of Eustochium, a Roman lady in the latter part of the 4th century, who lost her husb
- BOBOLENUSa German monk, c. 690. He wrote the life of St. German the abbat of Grandval in the diocese of Basle, who suffered marty
- BODFAN, STto whom a church in Carnarvonshire is dedicated. His festival is on June 2 (Rees, Welsh Saints, 302). [C. W. B.]
- BOETHIUSMonasteriensis (Borrtus, BurtE, Bropr, BorcH)}—Dec. 7. He was the son of Bronach, of Mainister-Buithe (now Monasterb
- BOETIUSdisciple of St. Fursey,and probably one of the three companions of St. Foillan, the brother of St. Fursey, who were kill
- BOGHA(BOGA), V. of Leitir in Dalaradia —Jan. 22. In Vartt. Doneg. and Tallaght are given the three daughters, 7.e. foster-chi
- BOISILpraepositus or prior of the monastery of Mailros, under abbat Hata. He is described by Bede as a man of great virtues an
- BOLCANor OLCAN.
- BONIFACIUSbishop of the East Angles. [See BERCTGILS. ] [S.J
- BONIFACIUS IILPore, son of John a Roman, was elected whilst deacon, after an interregnum of nearly a year, to succeed Sabinianus. He w
- BONIFACIUS IVPore and saint, successor to Boniface HI., son of John the Doctor, a Marsian of the city of Valeria, was elected and con
- BONIFACIUS YVPorn, a native of the city of Naples, was elected successor to Deusdedit, and consecrated on the 23rd of December 619 (J
- BONOGCB. In the Register of the Great Seal, book 36, No. 72 (MS. General Register House, Edinburgh), there is a confirmation b
- BONOSUSthe founder of the sect of the BONOSIANI, was bishop of Sardica in Illyria at the end of the 4th century. Some authoriti
- BORBORIANTIone of the names given to certain Ophitic Gnostics, derived by Epiphanius (i. 85 A) from BépBopos, " mire," as expressin
- BOSAbishop of York. He was a pupil of St. Hilda at Streoneshall (Bed. H. E. iv. 23), and on Wilfrid's exile in 678, when his
- BOSELthe first bishop of Worcester. That see having been created by the division of the great Mercian diocese in 679 or 680,
- BOSPHORIUSbishop of Colonia in Cappadocia Secunda, a confidential friend and corre- spondent of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Gr
- BOTOLPHUS(BOTULF), a holy man, who, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, founded a monastery at Ikanho in 654 (MZ. H. B, 312),
- BOTWINE(1) Abbat of Medeshamstede or Peterborough, mentioned in a grant of Offa to Eardulf, bishop of Rochester, in 765 (Kemble
- BRADANUS, STgave name to Kirk Brad-dan, near Douglas, in the Isle of Man (Acta Sanctorum, Oct. 20, viii. 887) in the 7th century.
- BRANwas apparently a very common name in Ireland from the 7th to the 9th century, and used sometimes by itself, sometimes in
- BRANDANsaid to have been bishop of Man, but the early lists are doubtful (Stubbs, Registrum Sacrum, 154). [C. W. B.]
- BRANDUBH(1) Bishop—June 3. Mart. Donegal says, ''This may be Brandubh, the bishop, son of Maenach, who is of the race of Mac Con
- BRANWALATOR, STwhose name occurs in a Breton liturgy of the 10th century, in conjunction with St. Sampson (Haddan and Stubbs, ii. 82);
- BRAULIOsucceeded his brother John in 627 as bishop of Saragossa, of which he had been previously archdeacon. He was deservedly
- BREACA, STThe connexion of the Celtic tribes with each other was very close in the early Christian times, as is clear from the liv
- BRECAN(BRACAN, BROCAN, BERCHAN). Of those bearing this name it is difficult to define what properly belongs to each, especiall
- BRECC FELEof Bealach-Fele—Jan. 15. Mart. Doneg. adds that he is of the family of Fiacha Suidhe, son of Feidhlimidh Reachtmhar. His
- BRECNATV.—July 3. She was also Brig-nat, received the veil from St. Patrick, and is named among the disciples or attendants of
- BREGUSUID(Beorhtswith, Flor. Wig. M. H, B. 632), the mother of St. Hilda and wife of Hereric; she had a vision of her daughter's
- BREGWINBrecowrnvs, the twelfth archbishop of Canterbury, succeeded archbishop Cuth- bert, who died in 758, and was consecrated
- BRENDAN(BRANDAN, BRENAINN) is the name, according to Colgan, of fourteen Irish saints: the Mart. Doneg. attaches ten to differe
- BRESAL(BREASAL). (1) Son of Seghene, abbat of Iona from A.D. 772 to 801; his dedication is May 18 (Lanigan, Zccl. Hist. Ir. ii
- BRICINof Tuaim Drecain—Sept. 5. Martyrology of Donegal gives him as of the race of Tadhg, son of Cian, son of Oilill Olum. At
- BRIGH(BRIGA). At Jan. 7 the Martt. Doneg. and Tall. place Brigh of Coirpre. In Evinus, Trip. Life of St. Patrick (lib. iii. c
- BRIOCUS, STAs is not uncommon with the early Celtic saints, who led a very wandering life (Gildas says of them "transnavigare maria
- BRISONa eunuch of the Empress Eudoxia, an orthodox Christian, and a faithful friend of Chrysostom. He took the lead in the pro
- BROC[Briocus.]
- BROGAIDHof Imleach-Brocadha—July 9. He is said to have been the son of Gollit, Coileach, or Gallus, a Briton or Welshman, and
- BROGAN(BROCAN). (1) Brogan of Maethail-Brogain—July 8. He is said to have been one of the sons of Gollit the Welshman, and of
- BRONbishop of Caisel-irrae, in Ui-Fiachrach-Muaidhe— June 8, a.p. 511. Dr. Kelly (Cal. Ir. SS. 4) identifies his see as Kila
- BRONACH(Bromapa) V.—April2. She was abbess of Glenn-siechis, otherwise called Glentegys, Clonfeys, and now Kilbroney since the
- BRORDAa Mercian ealdorman, also called Hildegils, whose death in 799 is recorded by Simeon of Durham (MZ, H. B. 671). He attes
- BROTHENUS, STthe founder of Llanfrothen in Merionethshire in the 6th century (Rees, Welsh Saints, 302). Rees says his festival day wa
- BRUERDUS, STa name preserved in the Cornish parish of St. Breward, south of Advent (a corruption of Adwerna), and west of Alter-nun)
- BRUGHACHwas bishop of Rath-maighehAenigh, a church situated in Tir-enna, in Tyr- connell, probably the church of Rath, near Mano
- BRUINSECH. CAEL(the slender), daughter of Crimthan, and virgin of Magh-trea (Moy- tra, co. Longford)—May 29. Colgan (Acta SS. 459, c. 1
- BUADMAELUSis given as one of the disciples of St. Patrick. When St. Patrick was passing through Connaught, it is said that Buadmal
- BUAIDHBHEDOis given by Mart. Doneg. on Noy. 17, and as the same as Aenghus of Cillmor, of Airther Fine, of the race of "Trial, son
- BUAN, STthe founder of Bodfuan, in Carnarvonshire, in the 6th century. His festival was held Aug. 4 (Rees, Welsh Saints, 280).
- BUATANof Ethais-cruimm—Jan. 24. Thus he is designated in the Mart. Doneg., but that of Tallaght has " Batani Methais Truim,' w
- BUDDASor TEREBINTHUS [Manes],
- BUDDHA, BUDDHISMThe history of the rise and development of Buddhism is in itself one of the most interesting subjects of inquiry which m
- BUDOOUS, STan abbot and confessor of the 6th century, said to have succeeded Maglorius, in the see of Dol, in Brittany (Haddan and
- BUGGABuoea. (1) A nun, daughter of the abbess Dunna, to whom Oshere, under king of Hwiccia, gave lands on the river Tillath t
- BUITE[Borrnties.] BULGARANUS, a Spanish count of Gothic
- BURIENA, STone of the Ivish ascetics (said to have been the daughter of a king), who settled in the wild Land's End district, in Co