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I presume the lives, here enumerated in the order of the months, 
were those which Colgan had ready prepared, or was preparing, for the 
press, when death stayed his hand, and left the great monument of the 
‘¢ Acta Sanctorum Hibernie’’ incomplete. Almost all these collections 
have perished; and, except some collectanea in the Burgundian Library, 
and a MS. of Saints’ lives, copied by Father Goold, of the Franciscan 
convent of Cashel, in 1629, in the margin of which Colgan had made 
some divisions into chapters, I doubt if there be any unpublished mat- 
ter of Colgan’s now remaining in St. Isidore’s, or in the Burgundian 
Library, to which places the MSS. that belonged to the convent of 
Louvain, where he died, were transferred eventually. 
Brenan, an Irish Franciscan, published an Ecclesiastical History of 
Ireland, in two volumes, 8vo, in Dublin, in the year 1840. He had 
access to the archives of St. Isidore’s during a residence in Rome, and 
has made some, but not sufficient, use of the valuable materials for Irish 
church history that are lying there. He asserts, vol. u., p. 271, with 
reference to the “Acta Sanctorum Hibernie,” that ‘‘the remaining 
parts of this work, enriched with notes, critical and topographical, had 
been prepared for the press, when the death of the author prevented 
their publication ;” and refers to Wadding’s ‘“‘ Scriptores Ordinis Mino- 
rum,” p. 210, as his authority for the statement. This reference is not 
calculated to convince me of his accuracy as an investigator. For, on 
examining the passage at the page to which he refers, I find that Wad- 
ding’s statement is considerably different. It is to the effect that the 
fourth volume of the “‘ Acta SS. Hibernie,” comprising the months of 
April, May, and June, was under the press at the time when he (Wad- 
ding) was writing this passage, which was in 1648 or 1649; and that 
Colgan promised to give to the world, in a short time, the fifth and sixth 
volumes, embracing the remaining months of the year. Moreover, all 
that I have been able to discover leads me to doubt that Colgan had 
much of the volume for April, May, and June, in the press. He cer- 
tainly had the paper and copy to a considerable amount ready for the 
printers; but, at such a distance as Rome was from Louvain, and con- 
sidering the slowness of communication then, it is very probable that 
Wadding may have been mistaken about the advanced state of the work. 
CATALOGUS ACTUUM SANCTORUM QU MS. HABENTUR, 
ORDINE MENSIUM ET DIERUM. 
Mensis APRILIs. 
Vita S. Osmannee, Virginiset Mar- Vita. Tighernachi, Episcopi, 4 
tyris, 1 Aprilis. Aprilis. 
S. Cadoci, Preesbyteri, eodem S. Celsi, Archiepiscopi Ard- 
die. machani, 6 Aprilis. 
S. Adriani, Preesbyteri, eodem S. Finani, Abbatis, 7 Apri- - 
die. lis. 
S. Fechuonis, Abbatis, 3 Apri- 5. Brogani, Episcopi, 9 Apri- 
lis. lis. 
