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horizon. ‘‘ Here then,’’ said he, ‘‘I shall rest, and here shall be my resur- 
rection.”” His determination was hailed with joy by the whole popula- 
tion. The Abbess granted him this Church of St. Peter, commonly 
known as Weich-Sanct-Peter, with an adjacent plot, where, in 1076, 
a citizen called Bethselinus (Bezelin) built for the Irish, at his own 
cost, a little monastery, which the Emperor Henry IV. soon after took 
under his protection, at the solicitation of the Abbess Hazecha. The 
fame of Marianus, and the news of his prosperity, presently reached 
Ireland, and numbers of his kindred were induced to come out, and en- 
ter his society. The early connexions of the monastery were chiefly 
with Ulster, his own native province, and the six Abbots who succeeded 
him were all from the north. The seventh was a southern. From 
Weich-Sanct-Peter, another Irish monastery, called St. James’s of Ra- 
tisbon, took its rise in 1090. Marianus’ original companions, however, 
did not continue with him, for John went to Géttweich, in Lower Aus- 
tria, where he became a recluse under Bishop Altmann. Clemens pro- 
ceeded on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he ended his days. Of 
Marianus himself, nothing more is recorded in this memoir, except his 
great skill and industry as a seribe. ‘‘ Such,” says the memoir, ‘‘ was 
the grace of writing which Divine Providence bestowed on the blessed 
Marianus, that he wrote many and lengthy volumes, with a rapid pen, 
both in the Upper and Lower Monasteries. For, to speak the truth, 
without any colouring of language, among all the acts which Divine 
Providence deigned to perform through this same man, I deem this most 
worthy of praise and admiration, that the holy man wrote from begin- 
ning to end, with his own hand, the Old and New Testament, with ex- 
planatory comments on the same books, and that, not once or twice, 
but over and over again, with a view to the eternal reward; all the 
while clad in sorry garb, living on slender diet, attended and aided by 
his brethren, both in the Upper and Lower Monasteries, who prepared 
the membranes for his use. Besides, he also wrote many smaller books 
and Manual Psalters, for distressed widows, and poor clerics of the same 
city, towards the health of his soul, without any prospect of earthly 
gain. Furthermore, through the mercy of God, many congregations of 
the Monastic Order, which, in faith and charity, and imitation of the 
blessed Marianus, are derived from the aforesaid Ireland, and inhabit 
Bavaria and Franconia, are sustained by the writings of the blessed 
Marianus.” 
He died on the 9th of February, 1088. 
Aventinus, the Bavarian annalist, styles him, ‘‘ Poeta et Theologus 
insignis, nullique suo seculo secundus,’’* and thus describes one of Ma- 
rianus’ compilations :— 
‘‘Extant Reginoburgii in inferiori Monasterio, Divini Davidis 
Hymni, cum commentariis in membranis scripti, opus Mariani. jus 
prefationem, ut fides fiat, subtexo de verbo ad verbum: Anno domi- 
* “ Annales Boiorum,” p. 554, ed. 1554. 
