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CAELESTIACUS, senator of Carthage,driven from Africa by the Vandals in a.d. 439,on whose behalf Theodoret wrote to Apellio, toAerius the Sophist, to Domnus, bishop of Antioch,to bishop Theoctistus, to count Stasimus, to countPatricius, and to Irenaeus, bishop of Tyre, whois asked to interest others in his case. He wasthe more helplessly dependent on charity, as hehad carried his wife, children, and servants awaywith him. He rejoiced in his misfortune as thesaving of his soul (Theod. Epp. 29-35). The nameis from Caelestis, or Urania, the goddess of Car-thage. [Coelicolae.'J (Ceillier, x. 65-67.)

[E. B. B.]

CAELESTINUS, Pope r. [Coelestinus.]

CAELESTIS, ST., confessor and bishop. Hewas bishop of Metz in Lotharingia at the be-ginning of the 4th century, and is supposed tohave died about the year 320. His acts aredoubtful. He is commemorated Oct. 14. (ActaSS. Boll, Oct. vi. 480.) [H. W. Y.]

CAELESTIUS (1), one of the chief presbytersof Carthage — Botrus was the other — who sum-moned the neighbouring bishops and those ofNumidia to elect a bishop, and being disap-pointed at the election of Caecilian made aparty against him. (Optat. Don. i. 18, pp. 17,18, Migne, Patrol, xi. 918.) [E. B. B.J

( 2 ), the Pelagian. [Coelestius.]

CAELIANUS, not Caecilius nor Caecilianus,is the MS. form of the name of the preceptorof Diadyinenus, son of Macrinus, and there isno reason for identifying him with any ChristianCaecilius, or for supposing him a Christian at all(Tillem. iv. 601). [E. B. B.]

CAELICOLAE. [Coelicolae.]

CAELIN or CELIN (1), brother of bishopsCedda and Ceadda, a priest in the householdof Aethelwold, king of Deira. He is mentionedby Bede as introducing his brother Cedda to thenotice and favour of his master, circa a.d. 653(H, E. iii. 23).

(2) Provost of Ripon. In a.d. 709 Wilfridallowed him to seek a more retired life, andTathberht seems to have been chosen provost inhis place (Eddius, Vita S. Wilfridi, cap. lxi.).The name occurs in the Liber Vitae of the churchof Durham (p. 24, ed. Surtees Soc.). [J. R.]

CAELLAINN (Caeilfhinn). —Feb. 3. Shewas daughter of Cael, son of Fionncbadh, ofthe race of Ciar, descended from lludhraidhe,monarch of Ireland. Her church is now calledTearmon Caelaine and Tearmonn Mor, in theparish of Kilkeevin, near Castlerea, co. Roscom-mon. She was the special patron of her kinsmenthe Ciarraidhe in Connaught, and the legendplaces her in the reign of Aedh, son of EochaidhTirmcharna, king of Connaught, who was slaina.d. 574 (Colgan, Acta S3. 13 n. 7 ; Book ofRights, by O’Donov. 100 n. f .) [J. G-]

CAEMGHEN, or St. Kevin, of Glendalough,June 3. [Coemgen.] • [J. G.]

CAEMH (Caoimiie) —At April 4, Mart.Eoneg. has “ Caemh, virgin, of Cill-Caoimhe,”and Mart. Tallaght “ Coine, Cilli-Coine.” Againat Nov. 2, Mart. Eoneg. gives “ Caoimhe, theAlbanan, of Cill-chaoimhe,” which Dr. Reeves

CAEMHAN

(Mart. Eoneg. 294 n.) interprets, “of Alba, themodern Scotland.” [J. G.]

CAEMHAN. Under the form, Caemhan,Caiman, Coeman, Cayman, Coemhoc, Mochoemoc,this name is of frequent occurrence among thesaints of Ireland, and the work of identifi-cation becomes extremely difficult (Colgan, Tr.Th. 177 n. 86 ).

(1) Of Ard-caemhain—June 12. He was sonof Coemloga and Caemell, and appears to havebeen uterine brother of St. Coemgen or Kevin[Coemgen]. He was thus descended from CorbOlum, from whom “ Oilioll Olum, king ofMunster and ancestor of the most powerfulfamilies of Munster, was the fourth in descent ”(Four Masters , by O’Donov. i. 95 n. p) TheMart. Eoneg. calls him Caomhan (or) Sauct-Lethan, of Ard-Caombain (now Ardcavan, on thepeninsula N.E. of Wexford), by the side ofLoch Garman, in Leinster. Colgan (Acta SS.584, c. 1, 586 n. 4 ) cites St. Caeman, AbbasAirdnensis, among the children of Coeltigerna,who was in fact Caeman’s sister, and wife ofColman or Colmadius. Lanigan (Eccl. Hist. Ir.ii. 221, 223) fixes his date, as brother of St.Coemgen, to the period of the second class ofIrish saints, that is, to the second half of the6th century (Jour. Kilk. Arch. Soc. iv. 57 sq.).

( 2 ) Of Enach-Truim—Nov. 3. He is said tohave been of the race of Labraidh Lore, monarchof Ireland, but Colgan (Tr. Thaum. p. 177 n. 88 )is probably mistaken in calling him brotherof St. Coemgen of Glendalough, when he andothers identify him with Caemhan, son of Coemloga and Caemell, of Ardcavan. Along with St.Fintan and St. Mochumin of Tir-da-glas, St.Caemhan was under the direction of St. Colum,son of Crimthann of Tir-da-glas (Dec. 13), andwith the rest constantly followed him. Hefounded the monastery of Enach-truim, nowAnnatrim in Queen’s County, and flourished ina.d. 550. There he spent the remainder of hisdays in great sanctity, and died on the 3rd ofNovember, but the year is unknown. (Lanigan,Eccl. Hist. Ir. ii. 71, 222-5; Ussher, de Brit.Eccl. Prim. 441, 962, and Index Chron. a.d. 550;Colgan, Acta SS. 192, col. 1, 312, c. 5, 350,c. 3; Four Mast, by O’Donov. i. 136 n. 7; O’Conor,Per. Hib . Scrip, iv. 125.)

( 3 ) Feb. 14. This saint appears under thenames of Caomhan, Coman, Comman, Conan,Conran, Convan, and in the Table of the Mart.Eoneg. is also Pulcherius. In Acta SS. 335,Colgan gives a memoir “ De S. Convano, seu venusConano vel Comanoand according to this ac-count, he belonged to a noble stock in Scotland, butspurning all earthly delights withdrew to theOrkneys, where he built a monastery, and afterliving in great sanctity as a bishop and confessor,died there about the year 640. At Kirkwalland throughout the islands his memory waslong revered, and many altars were raised tohis honour. (Bp. Forbes, Kal. Scott. Saints ,311; Butler, Lives of the Saints , ii. 185.)

( 4 ) Brec—Sept. 14. St. Caemhan Brec orBreac (the spotted), of Roseach (now Russagh,near the village of Street, in the barony ofMoygoish, in the north of Westmeath), is care-fully to be distinguished from St. Mac Nissi(Sept. 3), who is known by the same name, andfounded Connor. Ussher places the birth of