Let him bow it down without insolence or contention.Ī hundred genuflections for him at the Beata at the beginning of the day. Let him be constant at prayer, his canonical hours let him not forget The jewel of baptism and communion, let him receive it.
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Let him not be reproachful against the brood of the world,
#MARTIN WHATSON AR TORRENT#
Let him be modest, generous and gracious against the torrent of the world, It consists of 56 verses in Irish, including these instructions to a monk: In 1718 it was united with Cashel and St Ailbe is the patron of the joint archdiocese.Ī ninth century monastic rule bears Ailbe's name. (The ancient connection between the Aran Islands and the region of his kingdom may be discerned in the name Tiobarad Árann).Īnother interesting story is that Ailbe's tomb, long forgotten, was discovered in Cashel in 580 when St Brendan of Birr came on a visit to inaugurate the new king.Įmly later became an important ecclesiastical centre and diocese. Unaware that he had islands in his domain, Aengus that night dreamed about them and granted them to Enda.
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The church Ailbe founded at Emly in south-west Tipperary became a centre of formation for other well-known monastic saints, such as St Colman of Dromore and St Enda of Aran island.Īilbe is said to have petitioned King Aengus of Cashel for a site for a monastery for Enda. The Life of Declan also deferentially declares: "Humble Ailbe was the Patrick of Munster." He was considered to be one of the pre-Patrician saints of Ireland (Unlikely!) But it could be an indication of a later claim for authority for him or his see. The Life of Declan says: "They loved one another like brothers." The Life also says they both went to Rome and were ordained bishop by the Pope. Another source says he baptised St David of Wales.Īilbe was particularly friendly with Declan. And it may be from this movement that Ailbe received his Christian faith. Since Ailbe was also known in South Wales, it seems certain that before Patrick there was a movement of Christians between the south of Wales and the south of Ireland. The name Ailbe is Latinized as Albeus, and sometimes anglicized as Elvis!Īilbe is frequently named as leader among the four "Palladian bishops" all of whom ministered in the south of Ireland - Ailbe of Emly, Ibar of Begerin, Declan of Ardmore and Ciaran of Saighir - before or around the time of the arrival of St Patrick. He ordered that it should not be harmed, and would come to eat with him each day. The saint repaid the kindness toward the end of his life when a she-wolf chased by hunters took refuge with him.
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But, instead, the baby was found hidden under a rock (Ail) and alive (beo), by a she-wolf who reared him among her own cubs.
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Cronan, for reasons unrevealed, disapproved of his birth and directed that he be exposed to 'dogs and wild beasts, that he might be devoured'. Ailbe was born to a maidservant in the house of Cronan, Lord of Eliach in County Tipperary. The name Ailbe is derived from the Irish words Ail (rock) and beo (alive). The last bishop of Emly was Blessed Terence Albert O'Brien O.P., martyred 1651.īoth Ailbe's name and the place where he founded his church have significant associations in their etymology and mythology.Įmly, Imleach Iubhair, perhaps takes its name, "the lakeside of the yew tree", from a pre-Christian sacred yew tree at the place.Īilbe itself was the name of a divine warhound guarding the boundaries of Leinster. Places such as Magh Ailbe, plain of Ailbe, on which stood the Lia Ailbe, the Standing Stone of Ailbe, are witness to this. He is the patron saint of the joint archdiocese of Cashel and Emly with the see at Thurles. St Ailbe is regarded as the patron saint of Munster and his church at Emly and was for long the province's chief ecclesiastical centre.