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with his assumed name, containing also a memorandum of his native, 
name, Waelbrigde, has been edited in Pertz’s Monumenta by G. Waitz 
from a Vatican MS. formerly belonging to St. Martin’s of Mayence.* 
With this Marianus we have nothing further to do. 
The other Marianus Scotus, whose own name was Muiredhach Mac 
Robartaigh, was a native of Tir Conaill, the modern county of Donegal. 
He left Ireland in 1067, that is, eleven years after the Chronicler. A 
memoir of him and his successors, composed by an Irish monk of Ratis- 
bon, and carefully edited by John Bollandus, in the second volume, for 
February, of the Acta Sanctorum,{ from a manuscript preserved in the 
Carthusian monastery of Gaming,{ in Lower Austria, furnishes the fol- 
lowing particulars concerning the history of this good man :— 
Marianus was a native of the north of Ireland, and remarkable as 
well for the beauty of his countenance as the strength of his body. In 
his youth he was carefully instructed by his parents in sacred and secu- 
lar literature, with a view to his entering the clerical office. In procéss 
of time he assumed the monastic habit, but seemingly without entering 
any regular order; and, taking two companions, called John and Can- 
didus, he set out from home, having as his ultimate object a pilgrimage 
to Rome. Arriving, on their way, at Bamberg, they were kindly re- 
ceived, and, after a year’s sojourn, were admitted to the order of St. 
Benedict in the monastery of Michelsberg. But, being unacquainted 
with the language of the country, they preferred retirement, and a small 
cell at the foot of the hill was assigned them for their use. After a 
short stay, they received the license of their Superior to proceed on their 
way ; arriving at Ratisbon, they met a friendly reception at the nunnery 
of the Upper Monastery (Obermiinster), where Marianus was employed 
by the Abbess Emma, in the transcription of some books. From this 
he removed to the Lower Monastery (Niedermiinster), where a cell was 
assigned to himself and his companions, in which he diligently conti- 
nued his occupation of writing, his companions preparing the meni- 
branes for his use. After some time he was minded to resume his 
original journey; but a countryman called Muircertach, who was then 
living as a recluse at the Obermiinster, urged him to submit to the Di- 
vine guidance the determining whether he should proceed on his way, 
or settle for life at Ratisbon. He passed the night in Muircertach’s 
cell; and in the hours of darkness it was intimated to him that, where 
on the next day he should first behold the rising sun, he should remain 
and fix his abode. Starting before day, he entered St. Peter’s Church, 
outside the walls, to implore the Divine blessing on his journey. But 
scarcely had he come forth, when he beheld the sun stealing above the 
* Monum. Germ. Hist. Scriptores, tom. v., pp. 481-562. 
+ ‘Acta Sanctorum,” Febr., tom. ii., pp. 365-372. 
{ Latinized Carthusia Gamnicensis. It is sometimes called Kemnick and Gemnikho. 
The monastery was founded by Duke Albert in 1332, and secularized by Joseph II. in 
1782.—Pez, SS. Rer. Austr. tom. i., col. 935; Ersep und Gruber’s Aligemeine Encyclo- 
pedie, sub Gaming. F 
