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XLI. 
l^OTE 01^ MEDALS OF ST. YERGIL AJSTD ST. EUDBERT, 
STRUCK AT SALZBURG. By W. ERAZER, E.R.C.S.I. 
[Read April 28, 1890.] 
The Bishop of Down and Connor, on Eebrnary 23, 1863, read a com- 
mnnication, published in onr Proceedings (vol. viii., p. 295), upon "Two 
Irish Missionary Saints of the Seventh Century," and exhibited a 
silver crown piece of Salzburg of the year 1668, which bore the names 
of two distinguished Irish missionaries, Saints Vergil and Rudbert. 
Saint Rudbert, or Rupert, whose name Colgan supposed to be a German 
form of Robapcach, went to Germany from "Western Europe, and 
died at Salzburg, March 27, 718. Yergelius, a celebrated philoso- 
pher known by the appellation Solivagus, went from Ireland to Ger- 
many about the year 770, and became Bishop of Salzburg. His death 
is noted in the Annals of Ulster to have occurred a.d. 788, and the 
"Eour Masters," under a.d. 784, more fully record the event : — 
<' Eergil, that is the Geometer, Abbot of Achadbo and Bishop of 
Salzburg, died in Germany in the thirteenth year of his Episcopate." 
*'He was canonized a.d. 1233, by Pope Gregory IX.," and his festival 
is the 27th of ITovember. 
In connexion with St. Rudbert I desire to exhibit a small square 
silver medal, with loop for suspension, having on one side the arms of 
the then Prince Bishop of Salzburg, Maximilian Gandolph, which was 
struck in the year 1669. On the opposite side of the medal is a figure 
of a seated bishop, with crook and mitre, holding a globe, and inscribed, 
" s. RVDBEETVS EPis SALISB 1 669," which was struck a year subsequent 
to the crown-piece recorded by the Bishop of Down and Connor The 
figures (i) underneath the seated bishop show that it was intended 
for a coin as well as a medal. 
Of greater interest is a large and much finer medal, struck a.d. 
1628, which commemorates the transference of the relics of Saints 
Rudbert and Vergil, on the 24th September, to the newly erected 
cathedral of Salzburg, inscribed, " ss eypertvs et veegilivs PAXEOisn 
TEANSFEEVNTVE 24 SEPT." There are four bishops, robed, accompanying 
