| PAGE | ||
| CHAPTER I | ||
| On the Diffusion of Christianity beyond the Roman Empire | 1 | |
| CHAPTER II | ||
| The Captivity and Escape of Patrick | 16 | |
| § 1. | Parentage and Capture | 16 |
| § 2. | Captivity and Escape | 27 |
| CHAPTER III | ||
| In Gaul and Britain | 37 | |
| § 1. | At Lérins | 37 |
| § 2. | At Home in Britain | 41 |
| § 3. | At Auxerre | 48 |
| § 4. | Palladius in Ireland (A.D. 431-2) | 54 |
| § 5. | Consecration of Patrick (A.D. 432) | 59 |
| CHAPTER IV | ||
| Political and Social Condition of Ireland | 67 | |
| CHAPTER V | ||
| In the Island-Plain, in Dalaradia | 81 | |
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| In Meath | 93 | |
| § 1. | King Loigaire’s Policy | 93 |
| § 2. | Legend of Patrick’s Contest with the Druids | 104 |
| § 3. | Loigaire’s Code | 113 |
| § 4. | Ecclesiastical Foundations in Meath | 116 |
| CHAPTER VII | ||
| In Connaught | 126 | |
| CHAPTER VIII | ||
| Foundation of Armagh and Ecclesiastical Organisation | 150 | |
| § 1. | Visit to Rome (circa A.D. 441-3) | 150 |
| § 2. | Foundation of Armagh (A.D. 444) | 154 |
| § 3. | In South Ireland | 162 |
| § 4. | Church Discipline | 166 |
| § 5. | Ecclesiastical Organisation | 171 |
| CHAPTER IX | ||
| Writings of Patrick, and his Death | 187 | |
| § 1. | The Denunciation of Coroticus | 187 |
| § 2. | The Confession | 196 |
| § 3. | Patrick’s Death and Burial (A.D. 461) | 206 |
| CHAPTER X | ||
| Patrick’s Place in History | 212 | |
| APPENDIX A—Sources | ||
| Bibliographical Note | 225 | |
| I. Writings of Patrick, and Documents of the Fifth Century:— | ||
| 1. | The Confession | 225 |
| 2. | The Letter against Coroticus | 227 |
| 3. | Dicta Patricii | 228 |
| 4. | Ecclesiastical Canons of St. Patrick | 233 |
| Note on the Liber de Abusionibus Saeculi | 245 | |
| 5. | Irish Hymn (Lorica) ascribed to Patrick | 246 |
| 6. | Hymn of St. Sechnall | 246 |
| 7. | Life of Germanus, by Constantius | 247 |
| II. Lives and Memoirs of Patrick:— | ||
| 1. | Memoir of Patrick, by Tírechán | 248 |
| Additions to Tírechán in the Liber Armachanus | 251 | |
| 2. | Additional notices in the Liber Armachanus | 252 |
| 3. | Life of Patrick, by Muirchu | 255 |
| 4. | Hymn Genair Patraicc (Hymn of Fíacc) | 263 |
| 5. | Early Acts in Irish | 266 |
| 6. | Vita Secunda and Vita Quarta | 268 |
| 7. | Vita Tripartita | 269 |
| 8. | Vita Tertia | 272 |
| 9. | Life by Probus (Vita Quinta) | 273 |
| 10. | Notice of Patrick in the Historia Brittonum | 277 |
| III. Other Documents:— | ||
| 1. | The Irish Annals | 279 |
| 2. | The Catalogus Sanctorum Hiberniae | 285 |
| 3. | The Liber Angueli | 287 |
| APPENDIX B—Notes | ||
| Chapter I. | 288 | |
| ” II. | 289 | |
| ” III. | 294 | |
| ” IV. | 299 | |
| ” V. | 300 | |
| ” VI. | 302 | |
| ” VII. | 306 | |
| ” VIII. | 307 | |
| ” IX. | 313 | |
| ” X. | 321 | |
| APPENDIX C—Excursus | ||
| 1. | The Home of St. Patrick (Bannauenta) | 322 |
| 2. | Irish Invasions of Britain | 325 |
| 3. | The Dates of Patrick’s Birth and Captivity | 331 |
| 4. | The Place of Patrick’s Captivity | 334 |
| 5. | Tentative Chronology from the Escape to the Consecration as Bishop | 336 |
| 6. | The Escape to Gaul. The State of Gaul, A.D. 409-416 | 338 |
| 7. | Palladius | 342 |
| 8. | Patrick’s Alleged Visit (or Interrupted Journey) to Rome in A.D. 432 | 344 |
| 9. | Patrick’s Consecration | 347 |
| 10. | Evidence for Christianity in Ireland before St. Patrick | 349 |
| 11. | King Loigaire and King Dathi | 353 |
| 12. | The Senchus Mór | 355 |
| 13. | Patrick’s Visits to Connaught | 358 |
| 14. | King Amolngaid: Date of his Reign | 360 |
| 15. | Patrick at Rome | 367 |
| 16. | Appeal to the Roman See | 369 |
| 17. | Patrick’s Paschal Table | 371 |
| 18. | The Organisation of the Episcopate | 375 |
| 19. | The Place of Patrick’s Burial | 380 |
| 20. | Legendary Date of Patrick’s Death | 382 |
| 21. | Professor Zimmer’s Theory | 384 |
| INDEX | 393 | |
| MAPS | ||
| Part of Kingdom of Ulidia (Dalaradia and Dalriada), with Orior | to face 84 | |
| Kingdoms of Meath and Connaught | ” 104 | |