CAEDWALLA
CAELAN
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dzed. In a.d. 689 this Saturday was April 10.On the Easter season for baptizing, see Dict. opChrist. Antiqq., art. ‘ Baptism,’ p. 165. For theSaturday, Stevenson (ad Bed. H. E. v. 7, § 372)refers to two treatises by J. J. Homborg, dePaschate Veit. Christ § 9, Helmst. 1683, and deQuadragesima Veit. Christ § 67, Helmst. 1677.Caedwalla died, as Bede states, “ in albis adhucpositus; ” according to A. 8. C. (ad an. 688) inthe course of seven nights after his baptism, inhis crisom-cloths; and to Henry of Huntingdon,“infra septem dies in albis” (M. H. B. 723).These garments (for the nature of which seeDict. OF Christ. Antiqq. as before, p. 163) wereworn until the first Sunday after Easter (cf. Du-cange, s.v. Dominica). Wc gather therefore thatthe West Saxon king died not later than April17. Bede’s text says April 20, but the inscrip-tion which he quotes shews that he was buried,“ depositus,” on that day. The inscription makesCaedwalla to have lived “ annos plus minus tri-ginta,” and accordingly Bede describes him as“ juvenis strenuissimus ” when he first betookhimself to Sussex. Lappenberg ( Hist Eng. i. 286,tr. Thorpe) gives him a wife Centhryth, but with-out any reference ; Florence’s genealogy (M, H. B.633, 641) is silent as to her ; there is no mentionof children. He was succeeded on the throne by adistant cousin, Ina. The long metrical inscrip-tion, without the prose addition of Bede, has beenpreserved from the original stone in old St. Peter’sat Rome, and a copy of it exists in the valuablework of John Gruter, first published in 1601(Inscrip. Antiq. Amstel. 1707, p. mclxxiv. ii.)as well as in Raffael Fabretti (Pnscrip. Antiq .1702, Rome, p. 735, No. 463, where see note).
Caedwalla was the first of the Anglo-Saxonkings who quitted the throne for the “ liminaApostolorum,” and his example was subsequentlyfollowed by three others, Coenred of Mercia, Offaof the East Saxons, and Ina of the West Saxons.His motives, if Bede knew them, illustrate thereligion of the age; they were that he might ob-tain an everlasting kingdom; that he might enjoythe distinguished honour of being baptized in theChurch of the Apostles; .and his desire was thatshortly after that rite he might be released fromthe flesh and pass at once to eternal joys (H. E.v. 7; cf. iv. 12). From the last expression, itmight be conjectured that he found his healthfailing. Possibly his intercourse with Wilfrid,whose partiality for Rome is well known, mayhave encouraged the idea. The intimacy, asrelated by Eddius (cap. 41), was very close.From the wilds of “ Ciltina et Ondred,” to whichthe prince first resorted, he sought the bishopout in his peninsula of Seleseu, entreated hisfriendship, and begging he would be a father tohim “ in doctrina et auxilio,” vowed to be hisobedient son, and then the two exiles enteredinto a compact, taking God to witness. Malmes-bury goes so far as to relate that on gainingWessex, Caedwalla set that able bishop over thewhole kingdom “ ut magistrura et dominum,”and took no step without his consent (G. P. ed.Hamilton, 233). Hedda, the West Saxon bishopof that reign, also had intercourse with Rome.A continental writer of the 8th century, PaulusWinfridus or Paulus Diaconus, gives us a glimpseof the English king (whom he calls Theodaldusand Cedoaldus) on his journey out, telling ushow he visited the- court of Cunibert, king of
| the Lombards, by whom he was “ mirificb recep-I tus,” which is all we learn (Paul. Diacon. deGestis Longobard. vi. 15, Patrol, xcv. 632).
The varieties of his name are— Caedual,Caeduald, Caedualla, Caeduuala, Caed-
UUALLA, CAEDUALLANUS, CAEDUUEALHA, CeA-duuala, Ceaduualla, Ceadwal, Ceadwala,Ceadwale, Ceadwalha, Ceadwalla, Cedo-aldus, Cedualla, Ceduallanus, Ceduuala,Cedwalda, Cedwale, Cedwall, Cedwalla,Kedwalla, Theodaldus, Petrus. [C. H.]
CAEILFHINN. [Caellainn.]
CAEL, in Irish, passes into many forms andcombinations in proper names, and has carefullyto be distinguished from Cill , which in formresembles it, but in signification is different.While the latter is equivalent to Celia , andappears in Cillinus and Columcille, &c., theformer, meaning lean or slender , is found inCaelan, Coelan, Coelian, &c. (See Colgan, Tr.Thaum, 379 n. 76 , 596, col. 2.) The Latin formof Cael is Coelius.
(1) At Oct. 26 the Mart. Doneg. cites Caet,virgin, as one of the four daughters of Mac Iaar,of the Dal Messincorb ; “ and they were of Cill--na-ninghen ” (i.e. the church of the daughters)“ by the side of Tamlacht to the south,” that is,somewhere in Londonderry, or at Killininny,near Tallaght, co. Dublin. But the MartTallaght places their abode at Cill-maignend, i.e.Kilmainham, near Dublin. (Colgan, Acta SS.391 n. 5 ; Jour. Boy. Hist, and Arch. Assoc. Ir.4, ser. iii. 287 n.)
(2) Colgan mentions a Caila, whom he alsocalls Coelius, whose festival is Nov. 10, on whichday Mart. Doneg. gives “ Cael Craibhdeach,” andthe Table to the Martyrology “ Caol, the Devout(Coelius) and another Coelius is connected withAthrumia (Trim), Feb. 17. But little more canbe said of these (Colgan, Acta 83. 318 n.391 n. 5 >
(3) Cruimther Cael of Kilmore—-May 25.
Colgan ( Acta SS. 709, c. 26) connects himwith St. Endeus, but gives no account of hisrelation to Kilmore, to which he is attached inthe Kalendars. [J. G.]
' CAELAN". On this diminutive of Cael seeColgan (Tr. Thaum. 379, n. 76 , 596, col. 2).There are several saints of this name, in theCeltic Kalendars, such as Caelan of Cill-eo,June 30; Caelan of Doire or Doire-chaolain,June 19; Caelan of Echinis, Sept. 25; and Caelan ofTigh-na-Manach, Oct. 29. But the most notableis Caelan of Inis-Cealtra, July 29; who under thenames Caelan, Coelan, or Chilian, is usuallyconsidered the writer of the Life of St. Brigidawhich stands as the sixth memoir of that saint inColgan’s Trias Thaumaturga. But little seemsknown of him. He was a monk of Inis-Cealtra(now Inishcaltra, an island in the north-west ofLough Derg, near the village of ScarifF, in thecounty of Clare), and probably flourished afterthe beginning of the 8th century. (See Colgan,Tr. lliaum. 596-7 n. *, giving an account of themanuscript and what is known of the writer;Four Mast by O’Donov. i. 187 ; O’Hanlon, IrishSaints , ii. 13; Lanigan, Eccl. Hist Ir. i. 881.[Brigida (5) of Kildare.] Caelan is anothername for Mochai.) [J. G.}