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usus." In 1150, Gelasius, who enured himself to such abstinence, 

 made a visitation of his diocese, " ut pro more," in which he collected 

 supplies of cattle from the princes and nobles.* In the same year we 

 find the Abbot of Derry making a circuit of collection for the repairs 

 of his church which was burned in IMQ.-f* In 1157 a synod was 

 held for the purpose of consecrating the church of Mellifont, (County 

 Louth,) when many rich grants were made to that monastery. The An- 

 nals of the Four Masters are most minute in recounting the assem- 

 blage of personages, and the offerings of each on that occasion for the 

 good of their souls, (eleemosynam pro anima su&..") Townlands, cows, 

 sheep, and ounces of gold, were the principal articles of contribution. 

 It was on this occasion the unfortunate Dervorgilla, whose amours 

 with Dermot remotely induced the English invasion, presented the 

 offerings of her sorrowing spirit, |. and in this establishment in 1193, 

 she closed her days in penitence. 



Pilgrimages continued to be practised in this period. Tigernach 

 mentions one in 1026, and another in 1043. In 1037 Cathald, son 

 of Roderic, lord of west Connaught, " dominus occiden talis Con- 

 naciae," performed a pilgrimage to Armagh. § The Acta Sanctorum 

 (p. 407) commemorate similar penitential visits to Clonard in 1052, 

 1070 and 1141. In 1098 the son of the historian Tigernach died 

 under the severity of a pilgrimage.il In 1122, a professor of the 



• Trias Thaum. p. 306. 



t It is stated that Murtough O'Loghlin, King of Ireland, " viginti boves cum ipsius 

 regis equo, et aureo annulo unciarum quinque accepit; item a singulis proceribus equum unum, 

 et communi reliquorum contributione juxta taxatum personarum numerum, a singulis binis 

 burgimagistris unum bovem, &c." — Trias Thaum. p. 504. 



t " Sexaginta uncias auri et calicem ex auro pro summ4 altari, et sacra paramenta pro 

 singulis altaribus."— See Trias Thaumat. p. 309, et Acta Sanctor. p. 656. 



^ Trias Thaum. p. 298. 1| Acts^ Sanctorum, p. 416. 



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