Convallus

ON SAINT CONVALLUS

ARCHDEACON OF GLASGOW IN SCOTLAND.

The cult & memory collected from various sources.

VII CENTURY.

Convallus, Archdeacon of Glasgow in Scotland (St.)

BY THE AUTHOR G. H.

[1] Glasgow, of southern or Cisana Scotland in the province of Glotia is an Archiepiscopal city, on the river Clyde, indeed also the most celebrated emporium of this region: whose territory, on account of all kinds of fruits & other amenities, The cult in the Aberdeen Breviary. is held the Paradise of Scotland. While the faith of Christ orthodox there flourished, among their tutelary Saints they venerated on this XVIII of May, St. Convallus, the first Archdeacon of Glasgow, disciple of St. Kentigern, whom under King Eugenius in the year DCVI to have flourished, testifies the ancient Scottish Breviary of the Cathedral Church of Aberdeen. Of him makes mention John Leslie in book 4 On the deeds of the Scots, in Aidan the King & father of the said Eugenius; where thus he writes. Drostan, the uncle of King Aidan, to the fluxile things of this world sending a denial, shut himself within the bounds of a monastery, & many by the example of his sanctity to good fruit led over. The same manner of life, with the same fruit & the praise of sanctity, pursued Convallus, the disciple of Divine Kentigern. Who when at the funeral of King Aidan, while into the island Iona he was carried; & at the Comitia in Angadia, in which Kenneth Keir according to the old custom was saluted King, he was present; the religion of Christ & the probity of morals into the ears & minds of all sedulously to inculcate never intermitted … There were in those days in Scotland three, in doctrine & piety excelling men, the faith of Christ promoted by nation also Scots, namely Hebredus, Dunstanus, & Convallus: whose memory even in this our age among the Scots with great celebrity was venerated. Hector Boethius book 9 of the History of the Scots, about his cult these things adds: The Relics in veneration. Of Convallus, the disciple of Divine Kentigern, the Relics with a celebrated monument in Inchinnan, not far from the Glasgow city, by the Christian people hitherto in great are held veneration. Dempster in the Scottish Menology, on this XVIII of May, these things delivers: At Eonia in Lorne of Convallus the Abbot, Archdeacon, disciple of St. Kentigern. Which the same things from Dempster's Schedae published Ferrarius: & notes, that Eonia is a town on the western shore of Lorne or Lochaber, opposite the island of Mull, from the city of Dunblane above thirty miles. Camerarius the day before celebrates him, an elogium added, from Leslie & Boethius. Dempster book 3 of the Ecclesiastical History of the Scottish nation page 157 asserts, that he wrote the Life of Kentigern his Master, one book against the rites of the Heathens, & another to the Scottish Clergy on the statutes of the Church. But faith with erudite men Dempster will find, when of similar monuments, which to each of the Saints by him commemorated he ascribes several, even one at least someone into the light shall bring forth. The Life of St. Kentigern Bishop of Glasgow we published on the XIII day of January, taken from Capgrave, but by posterity from the tradition of the common people so stupidly composed, that we would wish it from our work to be absent, or at least with a graver censure to have been corrected. But this is to be given to all the beginnings of great things as pardon, that although more laborious, yet more imperfect they are.

ON SAINT ANASTASO

AT LEUCADIA IN THE IONIAN SEA.

The cult from a MS. Greek Synaxarium.

Anastaso, at Leucadia in the Ionian Sea (St.)

G. H.

Leucas or Leucadia, an island of the Ionian sea near Epirus, to Acarnania so near adjoins, that to it by a bridge it is joined: in which is a city of the same name, by Mohammed the second from the Venetians snatched. In this island to have lived Saint Anastaso, & there among the Leucadians in peace a holy life to have ended, delivers the MS. Synaxarium which in Greek at Dijon in the college of the Society of Jesus is preserved: & these verses are added.

Ἀναστάσω ζῇ, πλην μύει κοινῷ τέλει, Ἀνάστασιν μένουσα κοινην τοῦ γένους.

Anastaso lived, & by a common death is hidden, Awaiting the common day of the race for rising again.