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or Conon, Count of Wasserburg,* and his charter, of that date, makes 

 mention of the " altare SS. Marini et Aniani."f 



In a bull of confirmation granted by Pope Innocent II., in 1142, 

 Eot is styled prsefatum SS. Marim et Aniani monasterium."J Ma- 

 billon, who states that he visited this monastery in one of his journeys, 

 describes it as the Benedictine Monastery of SS. Marinus and Anianus,§ 

 but he takes no notice of the patron saints themselves in the earlier part 

 of his ''Annals." Eaderus, however, gives a short memoir of them, which 

 he illustrates by two engravings, representing respectively the mar- 

 tyrdom of S. Marinus, and the angelic vision of S. Anianus,!] to which 

 he assigns the date 697. 



Under the year 784, this author makes mention of another Maria- 

 nus, who also was an Irishman.^ He came to Bavaria in company with 

 St. Yirgil of Saltzburg, and was one of the two companions who were 

 sent by him with Declan to Frisingen.^''^* The festival of this Marinus 

 was the 1st of December, and his ashes were believed to be efiicacious 

 in curing certain diseases. |f 



As regards the names, it is not clear what is the Irish equivalent for 

 Anianus ; but Marinus is beyond all question a Latin translation of 

 TTluipebhach, which is derived from muip {mare), and signifies ''be- 

 longing to the sea." The name is of very early occurrence : thus, 

 lTluipe6ach, the first bishop and patron of Kiilala, who is commemo- 

 rated at August 12, is mentioned under the form of Muirethamis in the 

 early part of the eighth century. J J In like manner, the name of the 

 celebrated Briton, Pelagius, is understood to be a Greek form of the 

 British Morgan, which is equivalent to Marigena. We have in the Irish 

 calendar a name closely allied to Morgan, in the form ITluipsein, which 

 means " sea-born," and is of common gender, for it is applied in one 

 instance to an abbot of Gleann hUissen, now Killeshin ; and in another 

 to the celebrated Mermaid, in whose case it is interpreted liban, that 

 is, " sea-woman." §§ 



The name Marinus is to be distinguished from Marianus, as the lat- 



* Ibid ; Mabillon, " Annales Ord. S. Bened.," torn, v., p. 72. 



f Hundius, ut supra. 



X Hundius, ut supra, p. 267. 



§ "Annales," torn, v., p. 72. 



j| "Bavaria Sancta," torn, i., pp. 87, 89, 91. 



\ Ibid., torn, ii., p. 114. 



** The fragment of the Irish Chronicle, preserved by Canisius, seems, however, to 

 identify this Marinus -with the patron of Rot : — " B. Declanus cum aliis duobus ad Fri- 

 singiam, iique alii apud Rott beata ossa sua terrse commendaverunt." — Antiq. Lect., torn, 

 iv., p. 474. 



ft See the picture of their application in Raderus, tom. ii., p. 114. 

 XX "Book of Armagh," fol. 9 hh, col. 2, 15 aa. 



§§ See "Martyrology of Donegal," Jan. 27 (p 28). Ussher notices a bishop Murgevs 

 (Wks., vol. vi., pp. 479, 60fi), but errs in identifying him with Mvirgen-i- Liban, the 

 Mermaid (ib., p. 536). 



