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Ca*mhan Brec in Hibernia in a.d. 529, and hisdeath in A.D. 615, which is a century after thatol Mac Nissi ( Four Mast, by O’Donov. i. 238;Ussher, de Brit. Eccl. Prim. Dubl. 1639, p. 962;Colgan, Acta S3. 131—2, cc. 14, 15). [J. G.]

CAEMHLACH (Camulacus), of Rathain—Nov. 3. He was one of the bishops, of the firstclass, ordained by St. Patrick, and his house wasat Rahen, in the barony of Ballycowan, King’sCounty. He is called the Commiensian, and the‘ Hymn of Camelac’ is in the Antiphonary ofBangor (Ussher, de Brit. Eccl. Prim. c. xvii.;Tirechan, Vit. 8. Pair, in the Book of Armagh ,ff. 9-11; Ulst. Journ. Arch . i. 174). [J. G.]

CAEMHOG—July 22. This is one of thosesaints whose sex has been made uncertain, fromthe female termination being given to the name,or from other circumstances. (For an explana-tion of the change of sex, see Reeves, Culdees ,34, n. Aud for this same person or at leastan exactly parallel case, see Kevoca, who is asaint of the male sex, and is called Caemhog andMochaemoc, pronounced Keevog and Mokeevoc.)Caemhog, known also as Coemaca, was son ofCoemloga and Caemell, daughter of Ceannfionnanor Cenandan, and thus brother of St. Coemgenof Glendalough. Both Colgan and Lanigan haveregarded this person as a female, and are in con-fusion as to the identity, the one making her thesame as Caoiltighern, regarded as the daughterof Coemloga and wife of Colman or Colmadius,and the other taking her to be Coemaca, erro-neously supposed to be a sister of Caviltighernaod St. Coemgen. (Colgan, Acta S3. 584, o. 1,586 n. 4-8 ; Lanigan, Eccl. Mist . Ir . ii. 45, 223.)

[J. G.]

CAENCHOMHRAC.—July 23. Mart. Don.(by Todd and Reeves, 199) gives him as bishop,first at Cluaiu-mic-Nois, and next at Inis Endaimh,in Loch Ribh (Inchenagh or Inishenagh, in LoughRee, near Lanesborough, co. Roscommon). Heleft Cluain on account of the popular venerationgiven him as a prophet, and sought for solitudein Lough Ree. [J. G.]

CAERLAN (Cairlan), bishop of Armagh—March 24. A short memoir of this saint isgiven by Colgan (Acta SS. 744), which seemsto contain all that is known of him. He wasborn in, and by descent belonged to, the districtof the Hy-Niellan or O’Niallan, in the presentcounty of Armagh; according to the author ofthe Life of St. Dageus, or Daigh (Aug. 18), hewas over a monastery in the same place, aboutthe year 546, and was finally raised to theepiscopate. He succeeded Feidlimidh Finn therein 578, .and died in 588 (Lanigan, Eccl. Mist. Ir.‘i. 183; Four Mast, by O’Donov. i. 212, n.° 213;Colgan, Acta S3. 193, 744; Ware’s Bishops, ed.Harris, 38, 39). [J. G.]

CAERNAN—Jan. 31. Mart. Doneg. givesCaornan in the text, but in the table Caornan ofCill-Chaornain (now Kilcornan, atownland in theparish of Stradbally, bar. Dunkellen, co. Galway).Among the disciples and relatives of St. Columbais enumerated “ Cairnaan, filius Branduib, filiiMeilgi,” as coming with St. Columba on his firstvoyage to Britain, but there is no proof to shewwhether the Cairnaan thus named is the Caernanof Jan. 31, or he of Cluain-each, April 28. (SeeColgan, Tv. Thaum . 488, col. 1 ; Reeves, Adam-

CAESARIUS, ST.

nan , 246; Bp. Forbes, Kal. Scott . Saints, 294,O’Hanlon, Irish Saints , i. 599.) [J. G.]

CAESAR, bishop of Dvrrhachium, is givenby Dorotheus as one of the 70, and is said to bementioned by Paul, on the strength of the verse“ Greet them that be of Caesar’s household.’*This is corrected in the Latin version. TheMenology (Dec. 9) makes him bishop of Corona.(Tillem. i. 574.) [E. B. B.]

CAESAREUS, deacon, mentioned in Bede’sMartgrology (ad Nov. 24) as suffering in thepersecution of Maximian with Largus and Sma-ragdus. Smith here points out that this personmust be intended for Cyriacus, commemoratedwith the same two companions on March 16and Aug. 8 (Bed. ed. Smith, 448). [C. H.]

CAESARIA (1), or CAESARIUS (MSS.vary), had consulted St. Basil to know whetherit were lawful and expedient to partake of theeucharist daily by oneself. St. Basil approves ofdaily communion, though himself communicatingonly four times a week, and he permits the re-servation and solitary participation of the con-secrated elements. (Basil, Ep. 93; Ceillier, iv.447.) [E. B. B.]

(2) CAESARIA and her daughter Lucilla

were among the nine or ten Manicheans whowere all that were known to Felix, the convertfrom that sect, in North Africa in the 5th cen-tury. (Augustini Opera , ed. Migne, t. viii. 518;Baronius, Annales , t. v. App.) [E. B. B.]

(3) ST., cx Arles. Born at Chdlons and edu-

cated at Marseilles, this saint became abbess ofArles when her brother St. Caesarius was bishopof that see. He drew up the rules of her con-vent and procured their ratification by popeHormisdas. After governing 200 nuns for 30years, she died about the year 530. Her monas-tery was demolished during the invasion of Arlesby Theodoric in 507, but Caesarius rebuilt it(Acta SS. Boll. Jan. 12, i. 729). [H. W. Y.]

( 4 ) A later abbess of the same nunnery, writes

to St. Rhadegunda defining a Christian’s threeduties, prayer, bible reading, and thanksgiving,and sending her, as requested, a copy of a letterof Caesarius, about a.d. 560. (Ceillier, xi. 317.)Her letter is given by Martene (Anecdota, t. i,3, Paris, 1717). [E. B. B.]

CAESARIUS (1) A deacon from Africa,martyred with the presbyter Julianus, at Terra-cina, in Campania, where he was seized whilepreaching against idolatry. He was throwninto the sea in a sack, but his body was recoveredand buried near Terracina. His story in Bedeincludes the fall of a temple at his prayer, acelestial light encompassing him, the conversionand joint martyrdom of Leontius his persecutor.Bede and Usuard place him in the reign ofClaudius; but another account makes him tohave buried Domitilla and her companions inthe reign of Trajan. (Bed. Mart. p. 439 inSmith’s Bede, where note quoting Baronius;Usuard, Mart .; Vet. Rom . Mart.) [C, H.]

(2) ST., of Nazianzus, physician, son ofGregory, bishop of Nazianzus, brother of St.Gregory of the same place, and youngest ofthe family, date of birth uncertain, probablyabout a.d. 330. His death occurred in a.d.,368 or 369.