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	Culdees
		All admit that, in the beginning at all events, the Culdees were separated from the mass of the faithful, that their lives were devoted to religion, and that they lived in community.
		Maelruan, under whom Aengus lived, and who died as early as 792, drew up a rule for the Culdees of Tallaght which prescribed the time and manner of their prayers, fasts, and devotions, the frequency with which they ought to go to confession, the penances to be imposed for faults committed.
		He was elected by his brother Culdees and confirmed by the primate, and had a voice in the election of the archbishop by virtue of his position in the chapter.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/culdees.html (1414 words)

	CULDEES - LoveToKnow Article on CULDEES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The pure Culdees Were Albyns earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island of her seas By foot of Saxon monk was trod.
		In 816 it was confirmed, with.certain modifications, by the synod of Aix-la-Chapelle, and became the law for collegiate and cathedral churches in the Frankish empire.
		In Ireland the Culdees of Armagh endured until the dissolution in 1541, and enjoyed a fleeting resurrection in 1627, soon after which their ancient property passed to the vicars choral of the cathedral.
	99.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CULDEES.htm (1013 words)

	Culdee - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		At St Andrews about the year 1100 there were thirteen Culdees holding office by hereditary tenure and paying more regard to their own prosperity and aggrandizement than to the services of the church or the needs of the populace.
		A much-needed measure of reform, inaugurated by Queen Margaret, was carried through by her sons Alexander I and David I; gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Turgot and his successors in the bishopric.
		In the same fashion the Culdees of Monymusk, originally perhaps a colony from St Andrews, became Canons Regular of the Augustinian order early in the 13th century, and those of Abernethy in 1273.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/cu/Culdee.html (1013 words)

	Keith Hunt - British Church - Rome - Anglo-Saxons #2
		The Culdees or British clergy were, from Augustine's day, in constant collision with the, Raman clergy; the Culdees seem to have been too much in love with simple Bible truth to find favour with those who aimed at wealth and power.
		The history of the Culdee Church in Ireland is largely the history of that church in England, Scotland and Wales, except that in the case of Ireland she did not come, national, under the domination of rome until 1172, five centuries later than in England.
		The Church discipline of the Culdees seems to have afforded the model for the modern Presbyterian establishment of Scotland.'(43) The mission of Palladius in A.D.421 signally failed.
	www.keithhunt.com /Angosax2.html (1114 words)

	History Of The Scottish Nation - Vol 3, Chapter 21 - King David's Ecclesiastical Policy; Suppression of the Culdees
		The Culdees were the true heirs, but they were powerless against Prince David, whose pleasure it was that their ancient inheritance should pass to a church which their fathers had not know.
		In 1144 the scheme for the extinction of the St Andrews Culdees was commenced, as we have said, in the establishment of Augustinian canons.
		All these years the Culdees assembled in their "nook" and ate their eucharistic supper "after their own fashion." Henceforward the continued existence of the Culdee community is notified by the new designation of "Provost and Prebendaries of the Church of St Mary," sometimes styled St Mary of the Rock.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/wylie/vol3ch21.htm (5121 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Culdees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At Clonmacnoise, Ireland, in the 11th century the Culdees were laymen and married, while those at Monahincha and Scattery Island gave way to the regular canons.
		At Armagh regular canons were introduced into the cathedral church and henceforth took precedence of the Culdees; but six of the latter continued a corporate existence, and these Armagh Culdees long outlived their brethren in Ireland, dying out about 1603.
		In 1633 the last mention is made of the Catholic Culdees in the announcement of Archbishop Hugh O'Reilly, the Catholic primate, that he had incorporated the College of Culdees in the Catholic Cathedral Chapter of Armagh.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd02513.htm (362 words)

	Echoed Voices: The Culdees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is the intent of this article to fill in some of the historical gaps of the Culdee order and to put forth the theory that the Culdee were in fact an evolution in the development of Druidic cosmologies already having its origins in Semitic practices and understandings.
		The many Culdee schools and monasteries found it increasingly difficult to continue their worship as the Vatican sought to destroy the Gnostic practices of the Culdee that they deemed to be heretical to the "true teachings".
		The Culdee did not simply come into being and then disappear - their Order was in fact a continuous evolution of Hebraic practices brought to the North in the Indo-European migrations and melding into the parallel theologies of the Christian cults.
	www.echoedvoices.org /Nov2002/The_Culdees.html (3074 words)

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		The early Celtic Church and the Culdees were autonomous during their history, and had only limited contact with both Mediterranean cultures and the Roman or Orthodox Churches.
		The Culdees were principally missionaries known for wandering throughout Western Europe during the dark ages revitalizing and extending the Christian faith on the continent.
		The Culdees remained active until the 1300s, when the last vestige of the Celtic Church surviving in remote areas of the Scottish Highlands disappeared under pressure brought about by the expansion of the Roman Church.
	celticsynod.org /military.htm (723 words)

	History Of The Scottish Nation - Vol 3, Chapter 17 - The Culdees; Their Origin; Their Functions; Their Diffusion
		The Culdees, say they, were not the development or continuation of the Columban Church: on the contrary, their rise was the signal for the fall and extinction of that Church.
		Not at the seats of the principal churches only were the Culdees of Columbites—for we have not met a particle of proof to show that they were different—congregated, but throughout the country there were still small communities of these religious men who maintained Divine service in their localities.
		The existence of Culdee establishments at all these places and at others is authenticated by the oldest existing records, viz., the Old Registry of Aberbrothoc, the Registry of the Priory of St Andrews, Chartulary of Glasgow, Charters of Holyrood, Chartulary of Aberdeen, Register of Dunfermline.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/wylie/vol3ch17.htm (3595 words)

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		It can be seen in the sybolism of the Culdee church and in the fact that until the Council of Whitby in 664 AD they figured the holiday of easter to be a different time than that of their Roman Catholic counterparts.
		In fact saints in the Culdee church were said to have talked to the animals, which is usually only attributed with Francis of Assisi.
		When the Culdee church heard the message that they had to give they were astounded that it could possibly differ so much from their own beliefs.
	www.ladyoftheearth.com /lessons/culdees.txt (1218 words)

	Origin of the Culdee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this paper, it is the objective of the author to present the evidence of the origins of the Culdee, its name and the later Culdee Reformation occurring between the 8th and 11th centuries.
		Culdee, which is identical in Chaldean, simply means CELT and is best thought of as a sort of "traveling name", as one might use on a religious pilgrimage.
		Professor Adam Loughridge writing on Oengus the Culdee (circa 8th century) in the New International Dictionary of the Christian Church states: [Oengus] is best known as the author of a Litany which commemorates the fact that large numbers of scholars from the Middle East sought refuge in Ireland in the eighth and ninth centuries.
	www.culdee.org /press/origin.htm (2852 words)

	XLI. b. Iona. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They were a body of religious persons associated together for the purpose of aiding each other in the common work of preaching the gospel and teaching youth, as well as maintaining in themselves the fervor of devotion by united exercises of worship.
		In these respects and in others the Culdees departed from the established rules of the Romish church, and consequently were deemed heretical.
		Iona, from its position in the western seas, was exposed to the assaults of the Norwegian and Danish rovers by whom those seas were infested, and by them it was repeatedly pillaged, its dwellings burned, and its peaceful inhabitants put to the sword.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/181/412.html (998 words)

	Brief History of St Andrews
		The Culdees (from céli dé, companions of God) were a loose assemblage of non-celibate clergy who probably were established in the early part of the ninth century.
		A church was built for the Culdees at St Andrews before 877 by Constantine II, and Constantine III became Abbot of the Culdees and died amongst them in St Andrews in 952.
		The Culdees had a long and chequered history in St Andrews with many of their members holding important local positions, but as the power of King and Clergy grew in feudal Scotland, the influence of the Culdees waned.
	www.saint-andrews.co.uk /CC/History.htm (2377 words)

	Keith Hunt - The Gospel to Britain #2
		From the book "Celt, Druid and Culdee" (1973) by Isabel Hill Elder THE EARLY BRITISH CHURCH THE name by which the British Church was first known in these islands was the Culdee Church, the natural result of Christianity having been introduced by the Culdich or 'refugees'.
		The ecclesiastics of this Church, composed chiefly of Christianized Druids, became known as the Culdees, and not until the Latin aggression, five centuries later, were they referred to as the British clergy in contradistinction to the clergy of the Roman Church.
		Deliberate confusion was created by the Papal Church between the Culdee St.Patrick of the fifth century and a later Patrick of the ninth century, who, according to the 'Chronicles of Ireland', was, in the year 850, Abbot of Ireland, Confessor.
	www.keithhunt.com /Crisbit2.html (1889 words)

	Priory of Saint Andrews
		The church was, perhaps from the beginning, administered by Culdees, who also had the right of electing the bishop.
		In 1144, however, at the request of King Alexander I, who may be called the second founder of the priory on account of his many donations to it, Robert, Prior of Scone, was made Bishop of St. Andrews.
		When in 1297 Bishop Lamberton, who succeeded Bishop Fraser, was chosen by the canons without the intervention of the Culdees, as was done in the two previous elections, Cumyn, Provost of the Culdees, opposed the election and went to Rome.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/saint_andrews,priory_of.html (552 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. (i.ii.xiv) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It has also been asserted, that the Kelts or Culdees were opposed to auricular confession, the worship of saints, and images, purgatory, transubstantiation, the seven sacraments, and that for this reason they were the forerunners of Protestantism.
		Moreover, the Culdees degenerated into a state of indolence and stagnation during the darkness of the ninth and tenth centuries, and the Danish invasion, with its devastating and disorganizing influences.
		The word Culdee is variously derived from the Gaelic Gille De, servant of God; from the Keltic Cuil or Ceal, retreat, recess, and Cuildich, men of the recess (Jamieson, McLauchlan, Cunningham); from the Irish Ceile De, the spouse of God (Ebrard), or the servant of God (Reeves); from the Irish Culla, cowl, i.e.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc4.i.ii.xiv.html (870 words)

	The James Begg Society
		These Culdees, or 'men of the retreat,' sought seclusion in islands and caves, not simply to be safe from the dangers of barbaric warfare, but for converse with God, and for preparation, enabling them to emerge more fully equipped to do battle for the Lord.
		The Culdees at Iona and elsewhere were exposed to all the ravages of war.
		By popish despotism the Culdee Church was despoiled and downtrodden.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~jbeggsoc/porteous3-02.html (2090 words)

	PAP: The Scots Worthies by John Howie. Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the reigns of Cratilinth, and Fincormac his successor, the Culdees were in a flourishing state; but after the death of the latter, both the church and state of Scotland went into disorder.
		The Culdees were now recalled out of all their lurking places, restored to their livings, and had their churches repaired.
		Mention is first made of Clemens and Samson, two famous Culdees, who in the seventh century supported the authority of Christ, as the only king and head of His church, against the usurped power of Rome, and who rejected the superstitious rites of Antichrist, as contrary to the simplicity of Gospel institutions.
	www.pap.com.au /howie/jh_sw00c.htm (2086 words)

	CULDEES - Online Information article about CULDEES
		process the Culdees also lost any distinctiveness they may formerly have had, being brought, like the secular clergy, under canonical rule..
		Malcolm Canmore, was a lay abbot, and tradition says that even the clerical members were married, though like the priests of the Eastern Church, they lived apart from their wives during their term of sacerdotal service.
		property, with the island, to the newly founded Canons Regular, in which probably the Culdees were incorporated.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CRE_DAH/CULDEES.html (1256 words)

	Echoed Voices: Under the Oak: On Druidry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These Culdee, led, according to tradition, by Joseph of Arimathea, brought the teaching of Joshua, who is known to us by the Greek translation of that Hebrew name as Jesus.
		There can be no doubt of the druidic influence in the Culdee church, and the Culdee, by supporting the Druidic view, came into direct conflict with the official doctrine of the Roman Empire.
		The opposing doctrine of Pelagius, based on the teachings of the Culdees and Druids, taught that man was basically good and did, indeed, have control of his own eternal destiny.
	www.echoedvoices.org /Nov2002/Druid.html (1217 words)

	Functions
		Culdees is emerging as a venue for intimate (small-scale) functions.
		Wedding ceremonies: The last wedding held at Culdees saw a blend of different cultures coming together – and a ceremony was chosen which reflected the various backgrounds that were coming together.
		There is a piano and a baby grand regularly in use by patrons and volunteers at Culdees; we have guitars, a violin and a variety of drums and percussion from around the world.
	www.culdeesbunkhouse.co.uk /Function.htm (386 words)

	Culdees Tearoom with Crafts and Framing Service
		Kenny and Heather McVean run the Culdees Tearoom and Framing Service in a converted cottage in School Wynd.
		The tearoom is named after the former inhabitants of the nearby historic round tower.
		The tearoom is located 50 yards from the local museum, and next to Abernethy's historic round tower, one of only two in Scotland.
	www.culdees.co.uk (160 words)

	Bulfinch's Mythology
		It was not, however, till the thirteenth century that the communities of the Culdees were suppressed and the members dispersed.
		Ionia, from its position in the western seas, was exposed to the assaults of the Norwegian and Danish rovers by whom those seas were infested, and by them it was repeatedly pillaged, its dwellings burned, and its peaceful inhabitants put to the sword.
		These unfavorable circumstances led to its gradual decline, which was expedited by the supervision of the Culdees throughout Scotland.
	manybooks.net /pages/bulfinchetext02bmaof10/389.html (343 words)

	Irish Druids
		So many questions have been raised concerning the mysterious community, called Culdees, and such various opinions have been expressed concerning them, that one may be excused inquiring whether in their midst we can trace reminiscences of old Irish faiths.
		The notion has been long prevalent that the Culdees were only Scotch, having nothing to do with Ireland; whereas, they were originally from that country.
		One would fancy, with Algernon Herbert, that the Culdees performed secret rites, and indulged, like their Druidical fathers, in human sacrifice, from the legend of St. Oran being buried underneath the church erected by Columba, to propitiate the Powers, and secure good fortune.
	www.harvestfields.ca /ebook/01/085/32.htm (1508 words)

	AVALLON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A band of Irish monks called Culdees fled the fierce sea-rovers and sought peace in Iceland, settling mostly on the island of Papey.
		The Culdees wore white robes, used bells, books, croziers and carried banners and chanted as they marched.
		References to these Culdees run all through early Icelandic history, but they did not remain long in Iceland for soon Vikings from Norway came and in 874 the Culdees fled again.
	www.bercilak.com /bercilak_050.htm (687 words)

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