90 Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



there were five saints of that name, all of whom flourished in Ireland, and who 

 were severally knowTi by the names Palladius or Patricius, Sen-Patraic or Senex 

 Patricius, Patrick the Apostle, Patrick junior, and Patrick Aistire or Ostiarius. 

 The account furnished by Colgan is in these words : 



" Praeter S. Palladium, qui et ipse Patricius legitur appellatus, quatuor ad minus Patricii, qui 

 sanctitatis laude in Hibernia floruerunt, a nostris Hagiographis recensentur. Primus fuit Magnus 

 Patricius Hiberniae Primas et Apostolus. Secundus, S. Patricius cognomento senior, Episcopus primo 

 Ros-delanus in regione de Magh-Lacha, et postea, vivente adhuc sancto Patricio Apostolo Episcopus 

 Ardmachanus : qui colitur Glastonise in Britannia, et Ardmachiae in Hibernia, ubi ejus reliquias 

 asservalas et summo olim in honore habitas lego. Tertius, S. Patricius junior S. Patricii Apostoli 

 discipulus, et ex fratre nepos. Et horum quidem singuli floruerunt sajculo quinto : nam primum 

 obiisse anno 493, secundum vero anno 457, tradunt Quatuor Magistri in Annalibus ad eosdem annos : 

 Tertius autem, et qui S. Patricii patrui sui jam defuncti acta conscripsit, vixit post annum 494. Et 

 comparatione hujus dicti Junioris videtur prajcedens Patricius Senioris cognomentum sortitus ; vel 

 forte idcirco quod ante hunc et sanctum Patricium Magnum Hiberniae Apostolorum e vita decessit. 

 Quartus fuit Patricius Abbas alias Episcopus qui floruit sseculo none," &c. — Acta Sanct. p. 366. 



And again, in his Trias Thaum. p. 7, col. 1, note 22, he makes mention of 

 another Patrick, a native of Auvergne, whose festival fell on the l6th of March. 

 Of these Patricks, the one called Palladius, and generally known by that 

 name, may for the present be thrown out of the question, as he remained but 

 one year in Ireland, and his era is too well known to admit of controversy. And ig. 

 like manner the Patrick Aistire, may be dismissed, as he flourished in the ninth 

 century. The inquiry will, therefore, have reference but to the remaining four ; 

 and of these four, three are thus distinctly alluded to in the following rhymes of an 

 old monk of Glastonbury, quoted by Archbishop Ussher in his Primordia, p. 895. 

 " Sunt hujus nominis, tene certissimk 

 Tres Sancti Prtesules : primus HibernitB 

 Archiepiscopus ; alter Avernice,- 

 Qua natusfuerat ternus Hiherniee. 



Archiepiscopus primus Hibernice, 

 Is primus postea Abbas Glastonite, 

 Natus Bntannid prceclaro genere : 

 Ut sua Vita declarat optime." 



Of Patrick of Auvergne, here mentioned, however, so little is known, that 

 the Bollandists and Lanigan have come to the conclusion that he was no other 

 than the Apostle of Ireland himself; and even though he were a distinct person, 

 it is obvious that he could have had no connexion with Ireland, as his bishop- 



