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Dagan is said to have taken S. Lugid's Eule to Eome and 

 to have shewn it to S. Gregory (590-604). S. Lugid's Eule 

 divided the day into three parts, one for work, one for prayer, 

 and one for study. When Gregory saw it, he said, " The man 

 who drew up this rule had an eye ranging round his community 

 and up to heaven.'' 



When S. Lugid felt his end approaching he went to consult 

 Dagan as to a successor. "Lactean is the man for you," said 

 Dagan. " I think so," answered Lugid. Then said the Bishop, 

 "Bless us before you depart." " Blessing shall be given you 

 from above," answered Lugid. Dagan supposed he intended to 

 mount a hill and bless the monastery thence, but Lugid meant 

 that the benediction would descend from heaven. 



Lugid went thence to S. Cronan of Eoscree, and received 

 the communion from his hands, and gave up his monastery to 

 him, and not to Lactean as arranged with Dagan. 



Nothing more is told us of the acts of Dagan, of whom no 

 biography exists. 



The Bishop of Bristol (Dr. Browne) says, in reference to the 

 controversy between Dagan and Laurence, "It is very 

 interesting to find that we can, in these happy days of the 

 careful examination of ancient manuscripts, put a friendlier face 

 upon the relations between the two Churches in times not much 

 later than these, and in connection with the very persons here 

 named. In the earliest Missal of the Irish Church, known to 

 be in existence, the famous Stowe Missal, written probably 

 eleven hundred year ago, and for the last eight hundred years 

 contained in the silver case made for it by order of a son of 

 Brian Boroimhe, there is of course a list — it is a very long 

 list — of those for whom intercessary prayers were offered. In 

 the earliest part of the list there are entered the names of 

 Laurentius, Mellitus, and Justus, the second, third, and fourth 

 Archbishops of Canterbury, and then, with only one name 

 between, comes Dagan. The presence of these Italian names 

 in the list does great credit to the kindliness of the Celtic 

 monks, as the marked absence of Augustine's name testifies to 

 their appreciation of his character. Many criticisms on his 

 conduct have appeared ; I do not know of any that can compare 



