- MAARESone of twenty-two bishops known to Sozomen as having sutfered martyrdom in Persia during the reign of Sapor II. (Soz. ii
- MABANan eminent singer, who, having been trained in Kent by the successors of the Roman mission there, was invited by bishop
- MABENA, STa daughter of Brychan, gives name to the parish of St. Mabyn near Wadebridge in Cornwall; where the parish fair is on or
- MABON(1), ST., presumed to have been the founder of Rhiwfabon or Ruabon in Denbighshire. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 261.) [C. W.
- MACARIAValentinian acon, the last of the decad. (lren. i. 1.) [G. S.]
- MACARIOTESValentinian acon, one of the dodecad. (lren.i. 1.) [G. S.]
- MACARIUS(1) L, bishop of Jerusalem, the thirty-ninth from the Apostles, Hermon being his predecessor. His accession is placed by
- MACEDONIUS(1), the second known bishop of Mopsuestia, Theodore being the first.
- MACHAEUSRoman Novatianist, see Maxt MUS (7) the Novatianist. (Cyp. Zp. 44, 50.) [E. W, B.]
- MACHUTAa virgin martyr mentioned ir the life of St. Tathan (Lives of the Cambro-Britis) Saints, 261-2). A virgin martyr, Maches
- MACLIAVUSbishop of Vannes, brothe of Chanao count of Brittany. Chanao in A.D 553 murdered three of his brothers, but thi fourth,
- MACLOVIUS, STor Machutus, son Derwela, a sister of Amwn Ddu, became bishe of Aleth in Brittany, now called from him Malo (R. Rees, 25
- MACNISIfounder and first bishop of Connor, co. Antrim (Boll. Acta SS. Sept. 3, i. 662-6). A.D. 514 appears the most probable fo
- MACRINA(1), THE Exper, the paternal erandmother of Basil and Gregory Nyssen, a resident at and probably a native of Neocaesarea
- MACRINUSbishop of Jamnia, one of the Palestinian bishops whom Alexander bishop of Alexandria in his encyclical letter warned aga
- MACROBIUS(1), fourth Donatist bishop of Rome, said by Optatus to have been contemporary with Siricius, A.D. 384-398 (Opt. ii. 3,
- MADERN, STsaint of the parish in which Penzance in Cornwall is situated. William of Worcester (126) says, 'Sanctus Mortanus martir
- MADOG, STson of Gildas, the founder of Llanfadog in Wales in the sixth century. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 257.) (C. W. B.},
- MAEDHOG[Marnoc.]
- MAELOGson of Caw and brother of Gildas: The Fleury life of Gildas says that he left his father and came to Lyuhes in the distr
- MAELRUAIN, MAOLRUAIN(MeELRUAN, MOELRUAN, MOLRUAN), abbat of Tallaght, co. Dublin, called "bishop and soldier of Christ " in Ann. Ult. a.v. 7
- MAELRUBHA, MALRUBA, MALRUBIUSabbat of Bangor, co. Down, and patron of Applecross, &., in Scotland. Little can be added to the learned and accurat
- MAELRYS, STa cousin of Cadfan, and the patron of Llanfaelrys, a chapel under Aberdaron in Carnarvonshire. His day is 1st January. (
- MAENNA, MAONNA, MAENU(Marnts, -NIUS, MOEN, -NA, -NIUS, -NNA, -NNIUS, MOINNE, Mo-opna, MounE, Murnni, MunNNE, -1), bishop of Clonfert, co. Lon
- MAETHLU, STthe founder of Llanfaethlu in Anglesey. His day is 26th December. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 270.) [C. W. B.]
- MAGLOCUNUS(MArEtewn), son of Caswallawn, and king of Gwynedd or North Wales in 517. He is mentioned in several lives of the saints
- MAGLORIUS, STthe successor of St. Sampson in the bishopric of Dole in Brittany. His parents were Umbrafel, a brother of Amwn Ddu, and
- MAGNENTANUSa count, who wrote to Basil A.D. 374, requesting him to send him a written statement of his views as to the faith. (Basi
- MAGNENTIUS, FLAVIUS POPILIUSemperor, 350-353. It seems dubious and immaterial whether Magnentius was born in one of the German colonies settled in G
- MAGNERICUS, STJuly 25, twenty-sixth bishop of Tréves, between St. Nicetius and Gundericus in the latter half of the 6th century. He wa
- MAGNES[Macarius (9)] named by Germanus patriarch of Constantinople in his De Haere- sibus et Synodis (§ 7 in Mai, Spicil. Rom,
- MAGNINIANUSa friend and correspondent of Basil. (Basil. Hpist. 325 [381].) The Benedictine annotator gives reasons for not identify
- MAGNOBODUS(popularly Marmmpaur or MAIMBEU), commemorated Oct. 16, 17th bishop of Angers between Chaidulfus and Niulphus according
- MAGNULFUS9th bishop of Toulouse, between St. Germerius and Willegiselus in the latter half of the 6th century (Gall. Chr. xiii. 7
- MAGNUS(1), bishop, an old friend Chrysostom, who wrote to him from Cucusus 404. (Chrysost. Zp. 26.) [E. V.
- MAGUSa literary friend of Alcuin, who in his epistles mentions him thrice under this
- MAHOMET[MunAmmap.]
- MAIDOC, STie. Aeddan Foeddog, St. Aidus, whose life is given in the Lives of Cambro-British Saints, 232-50 (and see p. 340, 395, 4
- MAILDUFthe eponymous saint and probable founder of the monastic society at Malmesbury. Mailduf is mentioned by Bede in his acco
- MAILOCUSbishop, of Britonia in the diocese of Lugo, before 572. His signature occurs among those of the 2nd council of Braga hel
- MAJORINUSa man who, being a reader in the church of Carthage at the time that Caecilian was archdeacon, and filling some domestic
- MALALAS, JOANNEShistorian. The name Malalas has been variously spelled. Bentley, in his letter to Mill, wrote and defended Malelas; Hody
- MALCHIONa presbyter of Antioch in the reigns of Claudius and Aurelian, conspicuous by the prominent part taken by him in the dep
- MALCHUS(1), one of the earliest hermits in Syria, who in extreme old age was seen by Jerome in 374 and told him the story of hi
- MAMAS(1) (Mduas, Mamoes in the Latin martyrologies), commemorated on Sept. 2 by the Greeks (Basil. Menol., Cal. Byzant., Dani
- MAMERTUS(1), ST., commemorated May 11, eighteenth bishop of Vienne and the founder of the Rogation Fasts in the Western church.
- MAMMAEAor MAMAEA, JULIA, the daughter of Julia Moesa, and niece of Julia Domna the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus. She p
- MANCHANUSof Lemanghan, King's Co., has the little known about him much obscured' by the number of homonymous saints and the varia
- MANES(called also MANr among Oriental writers, Mavixatos and MANICHAEUS among Greeks and Latins; cf. a learned note on this n
- MANICHEANSmay also be consulted, specially Baur's work. For the English reader requiring a clear and full statement of the facts a
- MANSUETUS(1) (Mansvy), first bishop of Toul (Gall. Chr. xiii. 958; see also Tillem. iv. 501 and Ceill. xii. 886). He is represent
- MANTHANEUS(1) (Manrantius, MonTANIUS), a Christian imprisoned in Carthage under Decian persecution A.D. 250, who on his
- MAPPALICUSCarthaginian martyr in Decian persecution; died under reiterated torture before the proconsul (Cyp. Zp. 10). In Ep. 22 i
- MAPPINIUS(Marrnivs), bishop of Rheims, represented at the council of Orleans in 549 b his archdeacon Protadius (Mansi, ix. 138).
- MAR ABBAS CATINA(as Quatremére
- MARANA and CYRAtwo ladies of birth and education of Beroea in Syria, who in their youth devoted themselves to a solitary life of the ex
- MARANAS SCHOLASTICUSan advo- -eate, probably of Constantinople, a warm and generous supporter of orthodoxy, who wrote to 'Theodoret in 449 e
- MARATHONIUSeleventh bishop of Nicomedia, between Cecropius and Onesimus (Le Quien, Or. Chr. i. 587), and as Tillemont (vi. 397, 770
- MARBILIOTAE[BarBexirar.]}
- MARCELLAa Roman lady in the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th century, the friend of Jerome, by whose writings and especia
- MARCELLIANI(Soc. iv. 12), heretics. They were followers of Marcellus bishop of Ancyra [MaRrce.us (4)]. (Epiph. Haer. Ixxii. kara Ma
- MARCELLINA(1), a female teacher of the school of CARPOCRATES, who came to Rome in the episcopate of Anicetus (A.D. 156-167). She m
- MARCELLINUS(1), bishop of Rome after Caius from June 30, a.p. 296, to October 25 (?) A.D. 304, during 8 years, 3 months, and 25 day
- MARCELLUS(1), African bishop at Syn. Carth. 4 sub Cyp, A.D. 254. (Cyp. Zp. 67.)
- MARCIAIn the year 183 a conspiracy against the emperor Commodus was detected and put down, in which the emperor's sister Lucil
- MARCIANI([Evcuires, p. 261.]
- MARCIANUS(1), bishop of Arles a.p. 254 "(Cyp. Ep. 68). He was an adherent of Novatian, and refused to re-admit the lapsed. Fausti
- MARCIONone of the most noted and most permanently influential of the heretics of the second century. :
- MARCULPHUSa Gallic monk, author of Formulae in two books, still extant. He compiled the work when past seventy, and his period is
- MARCULUSa Donatist presbyter, whe with Donatus, bishop of Bagai, suffered death during the persecution, so called, under Macaria
- MARCUS(1), bishop of Jerusalem, the first gentile bishop of Aelia Capitolina, rp@rov ef €0vav enloxoroy (Kuseb. H. EZ. v. 12),
- MARIA(2) (Cyp. Zp. 21 and 22), mentioned by Celerinus and Lucian with Calphurnius, Christians at Rome in Decian persecution;
- MARIAMNEHippolytus (Ref. v. 7, p. 95) tells of the sect of the Naassenes that they professed to have derived their peculiar doct
- MARIANUS(Mavrranvs), an Italian bishop, probably the same with the bishop of Apulia to whom Innocent wrote his seventh epistle (
- MARINA(1), converted and baptized by St. Januarius at Rome A.D. 362, with her husband St. Gordian [GoRDIANUS (3)}, and their h
- MARINIANUS(al. lec. Martanus), one of Chrysostom's lay friends at Constantinople to whom he wrote a cheerful letter from Arabissus
- MARINUS(1), bishop of Arles; present at the Roman synod under Melchiades or Miltiades, A.D. 313, as we learn from St. Optatus (
- MARION(Mavrion), bishop of Cynopolis or Cynon (miswritten Cotenopolis, Labbe, iv. 1843), in the province of Aegyptus Secunda ;
- MARIS(1) (Mares, Marq), first bishop of Seleucia on the Tigris, ob. A.D. 82, regarded by the Nestorians as their first patria
- MARIUS(1) MERCATOR, a writer, of whom, until the last quarter of the 17th century, nothing was known except indirectly through
- MARMENTIAa Roman lady, who, with her daughter Lucinia, buried pope Urbanus after his martyrdom, A.D. 230, in a tomb immediately b
- MARNAN(Marnacu, Marnocu, Maran, Marranus, MerNnanus, MERNOcHUs),_ bishop and confessor. Identical with the Irish Ernin of Rath
- MARNOKUS[Marnay.]
- MARO(1), Feb. 14, a Syrian anchorite near Cyrus, of whom an account is given by Theodoret (Rel. Hist. cap. 16; Tillem. xii.
- MARONITESThis is the name of the only distinct sect which the Monothelite controversy produced. [PERSON OF CuHRIST.] It is said t
- MAROVEUS19th bishop of Poitiers, appears to have headed the rebellion of his city against the authority of Guntram in 585. The f
- MARRUTIUSMarrucius, Maruscivs, Marracivs), African bishop in Syn. Carth, (sub Cyp. 2 de Pace; Cyp. Ep. 57; sub Cyp. de Bap. H
- MARTIALIS(1), ST., June 30, first bishop of Limoges, sometimes called the apostle of the Limousin and Aquitaine. Though he has be
- MARTIANUS(1), bishop of Astigi (Ecija), one of the suffragan sees of Seville, some time before the year 633. His name is only kno
- MARTINIANUS(1), legendary martyr with Processus at Rome, commemorated July 2. According to the Acts of Linus, these were the two so
- MARTINUS(1), ST., bishop of Tours in the latter portion of the 4th century; hence frequently styled St. Martin of Tours (S. Mart
- MARTYRIANI[Evurnenrrax.] MARTYRIUS (1), a bishop deputed by the
- MARTYRIUS(2), bishop of Antioch, raised to the patriarchal throne a.p, 460. © After he had enjoyed his see for ten years he was f
- MARUTHAS(1) (called by the 'Copts Marunas), bishop of Tagrit, otherwise Martyropolis or Maipheracti in Mesopotamia. He flourishe
- MASBOTHAELThis name occurs-in the earliest. list of heresies, that given by Hegesippus (Eus. H. 2. iv. 22); and, as Burton. edits,
- MASCEZEL(Tillemont, Hist, des Empereurs,. vol. v. p, 64; Orosius, vii. 36; Zosim. v. 11; Claudian, de Bello Gildon. & Laud.
- MASONA(Massona, Mavsona, Mansi, ix. 1000, x. 478), bishop of Merida from about A.D. 571 to about 606.
- MASSALIANI§ [Evcurres.]
- MATERNUS(1), ST, a legendary bishop of Tréves, Cologne, and Tongres, said to have heen sent to these cities by St. Peter from Ro
- MATIDIUSpriest of Suedra in Pamphylia, who, with Tarsinus, a priest of the same church, requested Epiphanius to write in defence
- MATTARIIan ascetic sect of Manichaeans who slept "in mattis"—on mats. (August. Haer. 46 in Patr. Lat. xlii. 36, where one readin
- MATTHIAS, GOSPEL OF[Gosrzts, Avoc, Vol. Il. p. 716.]
- MATTHIAS, TRADITIONS OFA book
- MATTIDIAlegendary mother of Clement of Rome (Ree. vii. 8, ix. 35, Hom. xii. 8). The Clementine romance represented its hero as r
- MAUDUITUS, STsaint of St. Mawes, on the east side of Falmouth harbour. Sir H. Nicolas gives "S, Maudiut 17 Nov.," but Whitaker (Cornw
- MAUGANIUSbishop of Silchester, a legendary or fabulous person, whom Geoffrey of Monmouth (Hist. Brit. ix. 15) mentions as made bi
- MAUGANUS, STthe saint of two parishes in Cornwall, Mawgan Meneage in the Lizard district, and Mawgan on the Bristol Channel. In the
- MAUNAN, STthe saint of St. Mawnan by the Helford river on the south coast of Cornwall. "Mwynen" is given as one of the daughters o
- MAURIANUSa monk addressed by Nilus in five letters of a hortatory character (lib. ii. .
- MAURICIUS(1), July 10, martyr with forty-five others, led by Leontius, Daniel, and Antony, at Nicopolis in Armenia, under Lysias
- MAURILA(Morita), bishop of Palencia 589 A.D. (ldefonsus, De Viris Ill. cap. xi. apud Esp. Sagr. v. 479; see also Esp. Sagr. vii
- MAURILIUS, STSept. 13, fourth bishop of Angers, between Prosperius and St. Renatus, or René, circ, A.D. 397-427 (Gall. Christ. xiv. 5
- MAURINUSbishop of Alexandria, who wrote concerning the three days before the creation of the luminaries. (Alcuin, De Bissewt. in
- MAURUS(1), bishop of Utica, in proconsular Africa, who is said to have purchased his bishopric, perhaps by obtaining for money
- MAWRONa bishop, whose name is added to a forged Glastonbury charter of 601, which may ataps record or refer to a fact. (Haddan
- MAXENTIUSAURELIUS VALERIUS, son of Maximianus I. (Herculius) and Eutropia, a Syrian lady ; Roman emperor A.D. 306-312, Th
- MAXIMIANUSAURELIUS VALERIUS (HERCULIUS), emperor of Rome A.D. 286-305 with Diocletian, 306-308 with Maxentius or Constan
- MAXIMILLA[Monranvus(1).J) (2). [Leuctus (1).] o Sup
- MAXIMINUS(1), ST., an early bishop ot Besancon, third in the list of the Gallia Cliristiana (xv: 4), fifth in the Series of Gams
- MAXIMUS'(1), MARCUS CLODIUS PUPIENUS, Roman emperor from cir. Ap— Aug. 238, the 'colleague of Decimus Caelius Balbinus. [Baurnvs
- MAZABANES(MaaBdyns, MalaBBavns, MaaBdvos), bishop of Jerusalem, standing thirty-fifth in order of succession, between Alexander a
- MAZBERCHTENSES(in one MS. MazBUTHAZI), a name apparently for a sect of Nazarenes in a fragment attached to the commentary of Ephraemus
- MAZDAK(Mazpex, Mrzprk), a native of Persepolis (Mirkhoud), or according to others of Nishapur in Khorassan, and Archmagus of Z
- MECHELL, STson of Echwydd, and the founder of Llanfechell in Anglesey, was buried
- MEDARDUS, STJune 8, fourteenth bishop of Noyon, whither he transferred the see from Vermand, and first bishop of Noyon and Tournay c
- MEDWINUS, MEDWY, MEDVINUSone of the reputed messengers from king Lucius to pope Eleutherus, and returning as one of the evangelisersof Britain in
- MEGETHIUSthe Marcionite interlocutor who defends the doctrine of three principles in the dialogue against the Marcionites (Sect.
- MEGILDULFUSa name assigned to an early abbat of Malmesbury in the Cotton MS. Vitellius A. 10, where he is made to succeed bishop Da
- MEL, MELL, MELUS, MEIL(Maet, Maetus, MAoL, MOoEL), first bishop of Ardagh, eo, Longford, and usually said to have been nephew of St. Patrick b
- MELANIA(1), a Roman lady in the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th century. She was of Spanish extraction, and was daughte
- MELANTIUS(Metantvs), 18th bishop of Rouen (572-584) during the exile of Praetextatus, and (cir. 589-601) after the death of Praet
- MELANUS, STthe saint of two Cornish parishes, St. Mellion and St. Mullyan. <A St. Melanius, bishop of Rennes in Brittany, was at
- MELCHITES(MetcuirTar), name given by the Monophysite party to those Oriental Christians who followed the decrees of Chalcedon. It
- MELCHIZEDEKFrom the notices in Philaster (/Zaer. 52), Pseudo-Tertullian (24), and Epipharius (55), we gather (see the article on Hi
- MELDANUS(Meattan, Mepan, MELLANUS), bishop and confessor at Inchiquin in Loch Corrib, co. Galway. His fame rests on his connexio
- MELETIUS(1) (MeAérios, Metrtius), a bishop in Pontus, highly spoken of by Eusebius (A. £. vii. 32), who calls hin 7d péAr ris *A
- MELITObishop of Sardis, the capital of Lydia, held, in the third quarter of the 2nd century, a foremost place among the bishop
- MELLITUSthe first bishop of London, and third archbishop of Canterbury. Mellitus was not one of the original missionaries who ac
- MELLO, -ONUS, MELLANIUS, MELO, MELONINUS, MALLObishop of Rouen, a Briton, but with obscure legend. It is contained' in Vita S. Mellonis (Capgrave, Nov. Leg. Angl. f, 2
- MELTIUSsubdeacon of Carthage sent by Cyprian to Cornelius with an acolyte named Niceforus to confirm the steadfastness of Cypri
- MEMMIUS(St. Mrence), first bishop of Chalon-sur-Saéne. Gregory of 'Tours, the first author who mentions him, says: 'the city of
- MEMNONbishop of Ephesus at the siete of the council of Ephesus, 431 (Le Quien, i.
- MENANDERa Samaritan false teacher who lived in the early part of the second century. Our knowledge of him is probably all derive
- MENDAEANS[Sanrans.]
- MENEFRIDA, STa daughter of Brychan, the saint of the parish of Minver, near the Pad-stow estuary, in Cornwall. William of Worcester (
- MENNASpatriarch of Constantinople between Anthimus and Eutychius, A.D. 536 to 552. On the deposition of Anthimus, Mennas, supe
- MENSURIUSbishop of Carthage at: the beginning of the fourth century, during the persecution under Diocletian a.p. 303, and also *
- MERCELINUSor MERCELMUS, son of Penda king of Mercia by his wife Kineswitha, who is called "sanctus " by Florence of Worcester (M1.
- MERDDIN[Merrinvs.] '
- MEREWALDa son of Penda king of Mercia, who either succeeded or acted under' his father as king of the Western Hecani in Hereford
- MERIADOCUS, STbishop of Vannes in Brittany in the seventh century; he is said to have been consecrated priest in 659 (Acta Sanctorum,
- MERINTHUSA heretic of this name is mentioned only by Epiphanius and by those who have copied him. LEpiphanius two or three times
- MERINUS, MERENUS(Mimenvs, MirtrNUS, MIRREN), abbat, bishop, and confessor, best known as patron of Paisley, Renfrewshire. His legend is
- MERISTAE[see GENISTAE], one of seven Jewish sects mentioned by Justin Martyr (Trypho, 80). We can only guess as to what these pe
- MERLINUSThe prophecies of Merlin had great influence in the middle ages. Henry I. was not displeased to be regarded as the "Lion
- MERNOGson of Barurchus, is mentioned inthe legend of St. Brendan (Lives of CambroBritish Saints, 576, 578). The Calendars men-
- MEROBAUDES, FLAVIUSThe facts of the life of Flavius Merobaudes are to be gathered from the scanty but strikingly concurrent testimony of a
- MEROCLES(Mrroctezs, Myrocies, MrroCLETES), according to Gams (p. 795), the first well-authenticated bishop of Milan, from 304 to
- MEROVEUS(Merovecuvs), second son of Chilperic I. by Audovera, displayed during a short life the characteristic turbulence and fa
- MESOTESin the Valentinian system, the middle region, higher than the highest heaven, but below the Pleroma, This region is the
- MESROBESone of the most celebrated patriarchs and historians of Armenia. He was born in A.D. 354 at the town of Hasecasus, now M
- MESSALIANI[Evcurrss.] rei
- METANGISMONITAEIn the course of the Arian controversy cavil was raised on the text, "I am in the Father, and the Father in Me," and the
- METHODIUS(called also Eubulius), commemorated June 20 (Basil, Menol.) and Sept. 18 (Mart. Rom.), a Lycian bishop highly distingui
- METRIKOSValentinian aeon (Iren. i. 1). In order to find names for these aeons the technical adjectives of the system were presse
- METRODORUSThe library of Photius contained (Cod. 115) an anonymous tract against.
- METRONIAa Roman lady in the 4th century, who was left a widow when young and remained a widow for forty years. Her example is ur
- MEUBREDUS, STof whom William of Worcester (141) says, " Sanctus Mybbard heremita, filius regis Hiberniae, aliter dictus Colrogus, eju
- MEUGAN, MEUGANT(Mercanr), Sept. 25, Welsh bard, son of Gwyndaf Hén and Gwenonwy, daughter of Meurig prince of Glamorgan. He is thus rel
- MEURIGson of Tewdrig king of Morganwg and Gwent. On the abdication of Tewdrig, Meurig succeeded, and was much engaged in war w
- MEVENNUS, MEVEN, MEVENNIUS, MEVANIUS(Magn, Meen, Mein, MArAnus, Marinus, Masanus, MAvennvs), Welsh saint in Armorica, Fullest notice is by Baertius (Boll. A
- MEWANUS, STthe saint of St. Mewan near St. Austell Bay on the south coast of Cornwall, called Santmawant in the Exeter Domes- day.
- MICHAEL(1), in the system of Jusrinus, the first of the paternal angels (Hippol. Zef. v. 26, p- 151). In the Ophite system (Ire
- MIGETIUS,STAug. 7, twenty-sixth bishop of Besangon, between St. Donatus and Ternatius in the latter half of the 7th century, was, a
- MILBURGAdaughter of Merowald king of the Western Hecani [Mrrowatp] by Eormenburga or Dompneva; and sister of St, Mildred and St.
- MILCHO, MILCHON, MILCHU, MILCHUO, MILCO, MILCON, MILCUO(Mitzc, Mixt1ac, Miiico, Minioc, Minive, Minuc, MAELcuuU, MELIcoN, MicHUL), son of Buan or of the family of the Dal-Buai
- MILDRED(Mitruritua, MinprHriria), ST., daughter of Merowald the son of Penda by Eormenburga or Dompneva, and sister of Milburga
- MILGITHA(Muinpairna, Mumpwina), daughter of Merowald king of the Western Hecani, by Eormenburga or Dompneva; and 'sister of SS.
- MILOthirty-fifth archbishop of Tréves, between St. Leotwinus, or Lutwine, and St. Veomadus (circ. A.D. 713-53), a degenerate
- MILREDthe fifth bishop of Worcester (Mon. Hist. Brit. p. 622). He succeeded bishop Wilfrith in 743, 744, or 745; for the death
- MILTIADES(1), an active Christian writer of the second century. Eusebius tells us (H. Z. v. 17) that, besides leaving other recor
- MINAS(Mewnnas), patriarch of the Jacobites or Monophysites of Alexandria, succeeded Chail or Michael, A.D. 766. His episcopat
- MINEImentioned by Jerome (Zp. ad August. i. 740) as the name by which the Jewish Christian sect of Nazarenes was known among
- MINERVINA([Consrantinus, Vol. I.
- MINERVIUS(Mivertvs), a monk of the - diocese of Toulouse in the beginning of the 5th century. He and his brother Alexander, havin
- MINUCIUS FELIX, MARCUSone of the earliest and most pleasing of the Latin Christian apologists. It may be said that nothing is known of his per
- MIRO(Mrri0, Mirus), king of the Suevi in Spain from A.D, 570 to A.D. 583,
- MITHRAS(Mirrras, Mirruas, Mirras, - MytTuiras, Myrras, Myrra, Myrtrras,
- MIXISValentinian aeon. (Iren. i. 1.) [See flepone. | LG. S.]
- MOCHAEI, MOCHAI, MOCHAIUS, MOCAIUS, MOCHAOI,MOCHAUS, MOCHAY, MOCHOE(Macuu1, Mocuosus, Mocuzvs, Mocuua; also CAELAN, CAOLAN, COELANUS, KELANDS), abbat of Nendrum or Mahee Island,
- MOCHAEMHOG, MOCHAEMOG, MOCAEMOGUS, MOCHAEUOCUS(Mocuor- MHOG, MocHoEMOG, -Us, MocHOEMOG, MocHoEvoc, Mocnomoaus, Mocormoc, Morurmoaus, COEMHGHIN, PULCHERIUS), abbat of
- MOCHALLAEUS, MOCHALLIUSbishop, nephew of St. Patrick by Darerca his sister. (Colgan, Zr. Th. 227 n. *.) [J. G.]
- MOCHIMUS(al. lec. Mozymus, Moscuimvs, Mocuomevs), a Mesopotamian presbyter, who wrote at Antioch an excellent treatise against E
- MOCHONNAbishop. [Conan (3).]
- MOCHTAof Louth, one of the best known saints in the East of Ireland. His anonymous Life is given by Colgan (Acta SS. 729-737,
- MOCHUA(1). [Cronan (1).]
- MOCHUMMA(Docnumma, CuMMINE, CuMINEUS), bishop of Nendrum (Neyopoma, now Mahee Island, in Strangford Lough), died A.D. 659 (Ann.
- MODANUS(Mopane), abbat or bishop in Scotland. The Bollandists (Acta SS. 4 Feb, i. 502-4), Colgan (Acta SS. 252-3), Bp. Forbes (
- MODESTUS(1), after Jerusalem had been 'sacked by Chosroes II., A.D. 614, and Zacharias the patriarch had been carried as prisone
- MODWENA(Monenna, Monynia), July 6, Irish virgin, of Killevy, at the foot of Slievegullion, co, Armagh, presents a history which
- MOERAGENESthe author of a life, in four books, of Apollonius of Tyana, quoted by Origen (Adv. Cels. vi. 41), and spoken slightingl
- MOLAGA(Mot10@), Jan. 20, abbat of TeghMolagga. The only printed life is given by Colgan (Acta SS. 145 sq.), translated from Ir
- MOLAISRE, MOLAISI, MOLAISSE, MOLAISSIUS, MOLAISSUS, MOLASHson of Cairell, abbat and bishop of Leithghlinn, or old Leighlin, co. Carlow, commemorated April 18. [Lasrrran (2).] [J.
- MOLAISSE(MacLaisre), Aug. 12, known from his association with the life of St. Columba (Reeves, St. Adamn. 252, 287). He was abba
- MOLIBBA, MOLIBHA, MOLIOBA, MOLIBAEUS(Livinus), nephew of St. Coemgen and his successor at Glendalough ; commemorated as bishop on Jan. 8. He flourished in t
- MOLINGJune 17, surnamed Luacura, LUACHRANSIS, LUA, ILLUACHAIR, and also called DAtRCELL, TAIRCHEALL, bishop and confessor, fam
- MOLIO, MOLIOS, MOLOE, MOLUE(Maoxt1osa, Marsos, Muuuy), patron of Holy Isle in Lamlash Bay, Isie of Arran, is said to have preached both at Lamlash
- MOLOCUS, -OC, -OCH, -OCHUS, -ONACHUS, -ONATHUS, -UOCUSScotch abbat, and probably bishop of Lismore in Argyle-shire. (Dempster, H. HE. Scot. ii. 449*; Boll. Acta SS. 25 Jun. v
- MOLONACHUS, -ACH, -ACHE, -AH, -ATHUSbishop of Lismore, Argyleshire, called by the Scotch 'annalists the pupil of St. Brendan, and commemorated June 25; date
- MOLUOC, -US, MOLUAG, MOLUOG, MOLOCH, MOLONCHabbat, probably bishop of Lismore, Argyleshire, in the sixth century, commemorated June 25. (Colgan, Tr. Th. 481, 492; H
- MOMAEDOG, MOMHAEDOG, MOMEDOC(Maepocus, Marppocus, Marpocus, Mepoc, Mrp4), bishop or abbat of Fiddown, bar. Iverk, co. Kilkenny, was son of Midna, so
- MONAN-E, -US (frmwnanvs, Morneny, MyYNNANE), Scotch saint, called archdeacon, and bishop of St. Andrew's, also martyr as comp
- MONENN(Mon-Nennivs, Monrnpe, MoNINNINE) presents in. the immense variety of name-forms, about thirty in number, much confusion
- MONNICA, STThe name of this aa celebrated of Christian mothers was certainly spelt as above, Monnica not Monica, on the evidence of
- MONNULUSMunnutus, Monutus, Monrotus, Mannutus, Momrxxws, &c.), African bishop Cone. 2 Carth. sub Cyp. A.D. 252. Cyp. E
- MONOGENESin the Valentinian system, both the name of one of the decad of aeons, and also an alternative appellation of the primar
- MONOIMUS(a form, possibly representing the Jewish name Menahem), an Arabian Gnostic of the second century. Until recent times, h
- MONTANUS(1), a native of Ardabau, a village in Phrygia, who, in the latter half of the 2nd century, originated a schism which sp
- MONTENSESa name given to the Donatist community formed at Rome A.D. 358, from the place, perhaps on the Esquiline hill, at which
- MONTIUSa layman whose affection, hospitality, and kindly consideration towards him are mentioned very gratefully by Chrysostom.
- MORAINDbishop of Nendrum, now Mahee Island, in Strangford Lough, co. Down, died A.D. 680 (Ann. Inisf. A.D. 673, Cod. Bodl.; Ree
- MORAN(Maruan), ST., an Irish devotee, who came over with St. Breaca. Lamorran in Cornwall is dedicated to him (Whitaker's Cor
- MORE(Mora), an abbat who is recorded, in the Northumbrian annals preserved by Simeon of Durham, to have been killed by his p
- MORGAN(1) (Morcant), surnamed Mwynfawr, son of Athrwys, Arthruis, or Adras ap Meurig ap Tewdrig, succeeded Gwynlliw as regulus
- MORNANUSbishop among the Scots, at Iona about the sixth century (Spotswood, H. C. Scot, 11, 3rd ed.), but doubtful. {J. G.J
- MOROC, -OCUS, -OKEbishop and confessor in Scotland, patron of Lecropt, Stirling- shire, his place of burial, as MAWORROCK, and said by Cam
- MORWALbishop of Menevia, but not authenticated. (Godwin, De Pres. Angl. 601; Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 154.) {J. G.J
- MORWENNA, STa daughter of Brychan, the saint of Morwenstow on the north-east angle .of Cornwall, a district that became English at a
- MORWETHA, STthe saint of Morvah on the Cornish coast north of Penzance. It was a daughter church to Madron. (C. W. B.]
- MOSES(1), first bishop of the Saracens, cir. 375 (Tillem. x. 454). He was of Saracen birth and an eminent solitary when chose
- MOSHACRA, MOSHACCRA(Mosacer, Mosacra, Moacra, Moacrus), abbat of Clonenagh, Queen's County, of Saggard, co. Dublin, and of Fionn-mhagh in F
- MOVEANUS(Movevs, Movuyvs), Scotch saint, contemporary with SS. Vigianus and Medanus, and patron of Kippen; Dempster (H. E. Scot.
- MOYLE-IMORCHOR"Bishop of Ach-
- MUCAabbat of Glastonbury (Mon. Angi. i. 3; Memorials of Dunstan, pf. p. lxxxii.), The name of Muca is the sixth in the ancie
- MUCNA(Mouicrin, Muxna, Mouxrnus, Muccinus, Mucinus), bishop of Domnachmor in Tirawley, co. Mayo, contemporary with St. Patric
- MUGENTIUS(Maveantivus, MEIGANT, MevuGAN, MuGInr), master of St. Fridian or Finnian, and over a large school or monastery at Candi
- MUHAMMADsxp MUHAMMADANISM. An adequate knowledge of the geography of Arabia, especially that part of it which was the principal
- MUIRCERTAIG(Mortertagu, MurcerTACH, -US, MURCHERTACH, -TACIUS, MURTHERTA- cuus), MacEarea, first or fourth Christian king of Irelan
- MUIRCHUsurnamed Macc-v-Macutent, MACCUMACHTHENI, or MACCUTENUS, and cited by Ussher (Brit. Eccl. Ant. vi. 375 et al.) as simply
- MUIREADHACH(Mourepacu, Mortean), son of Indreachtach, bishop of Mayo, and slain A.D. 732; but there is much doubt as to his episcop
- MUIREDHACH(Murreapnacn, MurrepHAIGH, MurcADH, Murcuapn), bishop of Kil- lala, co. Mayo; commemorated Aug. 12. He was son of Eochai
- MUMMOLINUS(Mommotenvts ; for variations in spelling the name see Boll. Acta SS. Oct. vii. 953), Oct. 16, probably first abbat of S
- MUNCHIN, -USbishop of Limerick (Boll. Acta SS.1 Jan. i. 13 Cotton Fast. i. 372, 375 5. Gams, Ser. Ep. 227; O'Hanlon, Zr. SS. i. 27 |
- MURA, MURAN, -US, MURO(Morus), abbat of Fahan in Inishowen, co. Donegal. The chief authority is Colgan's collection (Acta SS. 587), De S. Muro
- MURATORIAN FRAGMENTThe document thus designated is a very ancient list of sacred writings of the New Testament, first published in 1740 by
- MURDACHUSScotch saint in Argyleshire, called hermit and also Culdeus by Dempster, who relates that this last of the native bards
- MURGEUSIrish bishop, flourished A.p. 650, but erroneously identified by Ussher ( Wis. vi. 479, 536, 606) with MurIRGHEIN the me
- MUSAEUSpresbyter of Marseilles, famed for his knowledge of Scripture and the subtlety of his interpretations. At the requests o
- MUSANUSwriter against the ENCRATITES (see vol. 2 p. 119; Euseb, H. EZ. iv. 21, 28;
- MUSONIANUSa lay friend of Chrysostom's to whom he wrote from Cucusus remonstrating with him for having allowed. him to send him tw
- MUSONIUS(1), bishop of Neocaesarea, on whose death in 368 a.D. Basil wrote a long letter of consolation to his widowed church (Z
- MUTIANUS(Mouctranvs), ascholasticus, cir. 550, employed by Cassiodorus (Jnstit. Div. Lett. cap. 5 in Patr. Lat. lxx. 1120) to tr
- MYENSIS(Myrensis) Episcopus attests the canons of the legatine council of Northumbria or Cealchythe (Sim. Dun. 786); he was Ald