This error was no sooner broached, butour saint strenuously opposed it, and informed St. Kiaran, whom the Irish style thefirst-born of their saints. Chrysostom. Winwaloe, and before theirmonastic profession were lords of Rosmeur, and Ros-madeuc.
This drewgreat multitudes to him, and he erected many monasteries in Syria, andtrained up holy solitaries. {609}Some time after this memorable event, a difference happened between oursaint and Acacius, archbishop of Caesarea, first a warm Semi-Arian,afterwards a thorough Arian. He afterwardsconverted and baptized the kings of Dublin and Munster, and the sevensons of the king of Connaught, with the greatest part of their subjects,and before his death almost the whole island. Nicephorus, finding him deaf to the remonstrances of their commonfriends, went in person to his house,
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