In Ireland we hear of nunneries founded by St Bridget in the fifth century, the chief of which was at Kildare; also that this saint crossed the Irish Sea and founded nunneries at Glastonbury in England and at Abernethy in Scotland. The accounts of the work of Bridget are numerous, but have not been subjected to criticism. Comp. A. SS. Boll., St Brigida, Feb. 1, and Lanigan, Eccles. History of Ireland, 1829, 1, pp. 377 ff.
31
Ambrosius, Opera (edit. Migne, Patrol. Cursus Comp. vol. 16), De virginibus, p. 187; (vol. 17) Ad virginem devotam, p. 579.
32
Hilarius, Opera (edit. Migne, vol. 10), Ad Abram, p. 547.
33
Blunt, J. J., Vestiges of Ancient Manners in Italy and Sicily, 1823, pp. 56 ff.
34
Menzel, W., Christl. Symbolik, 1854, article ‘Brust,’ makes this statement. I do not see where he takes it from.
35
A. SS. Boll., St Agatha, Feb. 5.
36
A. SS. Boll., St Agnes, Jan. 21; St Rosalia, Sept. 4.
37
A. SS. Boll., St Cunera, June 12.
38
Kist, N. C., in Kerkhistorisch Archiv, Amsterdam, 1858, vol. 2, p. 20.
39
Vita St Meinwerci, bishop of Paderborn (1009-39), written about 1155 (Potthast), c. 37.
40
Hautcœur, Actes de Ste Pharailde, 1882, Introduction, p. xc.
41
A. SS. Boll., Gloria posthuma St Bavonis, Oct. 1, p. 261.
42
Wauters, A., Histoire des environs de Bruxelles, 1852, vol. 3, pp. 111, 123 ff.
43
A. SS. Boll., Vita St Leodgarii, Oct. 2.
44
Roth, K. L., ‘St Odilienberg’ in Alsatia, 1856, pp. 91 ff.
45
Bonnell, H. E., Anfänge des karolingischen Hauses, 1866, pp. 51, 149 etc. It is noticeable that another woman-saint Ida (A. SS. Boll., St Ida, June 20) figures as ancestral mother of the Liudolfings, who became kings in Saxony and emperors of Germany, comp. Waitz, Jahrbücher des deutschen Reichs unter Heinrich I. 1863, Nachtrag I.
46
Grimm, J., Deutsche Mythologie, 1875, p. 207.
47
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, 1858-82.
48
Lebensgeschichte der heil. Othilia. Freiburg, 1852.
49
Alsatia, 1858-60, p. 268, contains local stories.
50
Roth, K. L., ‘St Odilienberg’ in Alsatia, 1856, p. 95.
51
Menzel, Christliche Symbolik, article ‘Knieen.’
52
Du Bois de Beauchesne, Madame Ste Notburg, 1888, pp. 85, 197 etc. Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, and A. SS. Boll. so far, omit her.
53
Lefebure, F. A., Ste Godeleine et son culte, 1888. A. SS. Boll., St Godelewa, July 6.
54
Wonderlyk Leven. Cortryk 1800, anon., pp. 42, 45 etc.
55
Comp. below, ch. 4, § 2.
56
Rochholz, L., Drei Gaugöttinnen, 1870, pp. 26, 80 etc.
57
Simrock, K., Handbuch der deutschen Mythologie, p. 389.
58
Clouet, Histoire de Verdun, p. 180; A. SS. Boll., St Lucie, Sept. 9.
59
A. SS. Boll., St Germana, Oct. 1; Husenbeth, F. C., Emblems of the Saints, 1882.
60
Rochholz, L., Drei Gaugöttinnen, p. 164.
61
Zacher, J., St Genovefa Pfalzgräfin, 1860, p. 55.
62
Menzel, Christliche Symbolik, article ‘Aehre,’ refers to Notre Dame de trois épis in Elsass.
63
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, St Nothburga, nr 2.
64
Wauters, A., Histoire des environs de Bruxelles, 1, p. 302; Corémans, L’année de l’ancienne Belgique, 1844, p. 76.
65
A. SS. Boll., St Alena, June 19; Menzel, W., Christliche Symbolik, 1854, article ‘Arm.’ Corémans, L’année de l’ancienne Belgique, 1844, June 19.
66
Corémans, L’année etc., p. 77.
67
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Traditions et légendes de la Belgique, 1870, vol. 1, p. 99.
68
A. SS. Boll., St Gunthildis, Sept. 22.
69
Imagines SS. Augustanorum, 1601; also Stadler and Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, St Radegundis, nr 3.
70
Pharaildis has been depicted with one, A. SS. Boll., St Pharaildis, Jan. 4; also Verena, comp. below.
71
Husenbeth, F. C., Emblems of the Saints, 1870, mentions one instance.
72
Rochholz, Drei Gaugöttinnen, 1870, p. 7.
73
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon; A. SS. Boll., St Rolendis, May 13.
74
A. SS. Boll., St Edigna, Feb. 26.
75
A. SS. Boll., St Christiane, July 26.
76
Rochholz, L., Drei Gaugöttinnen, p. 37.
77
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, 1858-82, St Radegundis, nr 3.
78
Ibid., Appendix, p. 998, footnote.
79
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, 1858, St Regina, nr 4.
80
Kist, N. C., ‘Reenensche Kuneralegende’ in Kerkhistorisch Archiv, Amsterdam, 1858, vol. 2, p. 5.
81
Stadler und Heim, Vollständiges Heiligenlexicon, 1858, St Sura.
82
A. SS. Boll., St Germana, Oct. 1.
83
Panzer, F., Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie, 1848, pp. 5 ff., 272 ff.
84
Capgrave, Catalogus SS. Angliae, 1516.
85
Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887.
86
Capgrave, Catalogus SS. Angliae, 1516. Comp. Surius, Vitae SS. 1617.
