Life
?-431 [‘disciple of Pallas Athene’]; anti-Pelagian Christian
missionary to Ireland; commissioned by Pope Celestine I in 431; travelled
to Wicklow and died within the year, to be followed by St. Patrick.
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Criticism
L. Bieler, ‘The Mission of Palladius’, in Traditio,
VI (1948) [WB Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition,
IAP 1976; 1984.] And note that the name means.
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Notes
P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ancient Ireland (1903 &
edns.), Chap. X, ‘Christianity’: Christians in Ireland before
Patrick; St Prosper of Aquitaine records that Pope Celestine sent Palladius
‘to the Scots believing in Christ, to be their first bishop’,
and was copied by Bede; Palladius’s churches of Cille Fine [var.
Killeen Cormac], Tech-na-Roman, and Domnach Arte; &c.
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