![]() There may have been a connection between the mission of the Bishop Germanus of Auxerre to Britain and that of Palladius to Ireland. The first Bishop of the Irish, Palladius, appears as early as 429 as a deacon: ad insinuationem Palladii diaconi papa Caelestinus Germanum Au- tisidorensem episcopum vice sua mittit et deturbatis haereticis Britannos ad catholicam fidem dirigit. The notice assumes the existence of Iro-Scottish groups of Christians, who were, however, without a bishop. "Scots" was the ancient name of the Irish. The Aquitanian, Prosper Tiro, a friend of Leo the Great, noted in his Chronicle for the year 431: Ad Scottos in Christum credentes ordinatus a papa Caelestino Palladius primus episcopus mittitur. As in the East it was Cappadocian, so in the Hesperides it was British war-prisoners who were the first messengers of the gospel, which took root in Ireland in the fifth century. In other respects, however, the Celtic mission of the West offers a genuine analogy to the Gothic mission of the East. Since the Church of the East had the advantage in time over that of the West, it is not surprising that it also radiated first into the barbarian world. Dispositio namque divinitus operi maxime congruebat, ut multa regna confoederarentur imperio, ut cito pervios haberet populos praedicatio generalis, quos unius teneret regimen civitatis. Ut autem inenarrabilis gratiae [incarnationis~\ per totum mundum dif- funderetur effectus, Romanum regnum divina providentia praeparavit cuius ad eos limites incrementa perducta sunt, quibus cunctarim undi- que gentium vicina et contigua esset universitas. According to the great Pope, this was the historical and theological mission of the Empire: A ne^-Western Ecumene arose on the foundation of the Christian faith and of Latin culture. When the Empire reeled on its founda tions, the Church carried, the gospel outside the Graeco-Roman Ecumene to the barbarians. ![]() When the Emperors transferred their residence to Milan and Ravenna, Rome be came the City of the Apostles. "Ut gens sancta, populus electus, civitas sacerdotalis et regia latius praesideres religione divina quam dominatione terrena," said Leo the Great (440-461) in his sermon for the feast of the Princes of the Apostles, Peter and Paul. The Latin Church in the Transition to the Early Middle AgesĬHAPTER 3 3 The Origins of Christianity in Ireland and ScotlandĪround the middle of the fifth century a new note was heard in the ancient praise of the City of Rome. ![]() The Imperial Church from Constantine to the Early Middle Ages.
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