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ST See also: Armagh
-See also: MALACHY, ST
and papal See also: legate in See also: Ireland, was See also: born at Armagh
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His See also: father, an Irish clergyman, the Fearleighlinn, or See also: lector, at the university, was said to have been of See also: noble See also: family
.
Having been ordained to the priesthood, he for some See also: time acted as See also: vicar of Archbishop See also: Celsus or Ceallach of Armagh, and carried out many reforms tending to increase conformity with the usage of the See also: Church of
See also: Rome
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In See also: order to improve his knowledge of the See also: Roman ritual he spent four years with Malchus, See also: bishop of See also: Lismore (in Munster), a strong advocate of Romanism
.
Here he became acquainted with Cormac MacCarthy, See also: king of Desmond, who had sought
See also: refuge with Malchus, and, when he subsequently regained his See also: kingdom, rendered See also: great services to Malachy
.
On his return from Lismore, Malachy undertook the See also: government of the decayed monastery of See also: Bangor (in Co
.
Down), but very soon afterwards he was elected bishop of Connor (now a small See also: village near See also: Ballymena)
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After the See also: sack of that place by the king of See also: Ulster he withdrew into Munster; here he was kindly received by Cormac MacCarthy, with whose assistance he built the monastery of Ibrach (in See also: Kerry)
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Meanwhile he had been designated by Celsus (in whose family the see of Armagh had been hereditary for many years) to succeed him in the See also: arch-bishopric; in the interests of reform he reluctantly accepted the dignity, and thus became involved for some years in a struggle with the so-called heirs
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Having finally settled the diocese, he was permitted, as had been previously stipulated by himself, to return to his former diocese, or rather to the smaller and poorer portion of it, the bishopric of Down
.
Although the Roman party had by this time obtained a See also: firm hold in the See also: north of Ire-See also: land, the organization of the Church had not yet received the sanction of the See also: pope
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Accordingly, in 1139, Malachy set out from Ireland with the purpose of soliciting from the pope the See also: pallium (the token of archiepiscopal subjection to Rome) for the arch-bishop of Armagh
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On his way to Rome he visited See also: Clairvaux, and thus began a lifelong friendship with St See also: Bernard
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Malachy was received by Innocent II. with great honour, and made papal legate in Ireland, though the pope refused to See also: grant the pallium until it had been unanimously applied for " by a general council of the bishops,
See also: clergy and nobles." On his way home Malachy revisited Clairvaux, and took with him from there four members of the Cistercian order, by whom the abbey of Mellifont (in the county of See also: Louth) was afterwards founded in 1141
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For the next eight years after his return from Rome Malachy was active in the discharge of his legatine duties, and in 1148, at a See also: synod of bishops and clergy held at Inis-Patrick (St Patrick's See also: Island, near Skerries, Co
.
See also: Dublin), he was commissioned to return to Rome and make fresh application for the pallium; he did not, however, get beyond Clairvaux, where he died in the arms of St Bernard on the 2nd of See also: November 1148
.
The See also: object of his See also: life was realized four years afterwards, in 1152, during the legateship of his successor
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Malachy was canonized by See also: Clement III. in 1190
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The influence of Malachy in Irish ecclesiastical affairs has been compared with that of Boniface in See also: Germany
.
He reformed and reorganized the Irish Church and brought it into subjection to Rome; like Bonif ace, he was a zealous reformer and a See also: promoter of monasticism
.
But perhaps his chief claim to distinction is that of having opened the first Cistercian monastery in Ireland, five more being soon afterwards established
.
Several See also: works are attributed to him, but are all probably See also: spurious
.
The most curious of these is a Prophecy concerning the Future Roman Pontiffs, which has produced an extensive literature
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It is now generally attributed to the See also: year 1590, and is supposed to have been forged to support the election of See also: Cardinal Simoncelli to the papal chair
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St Bernard's Life of Malachy, and two sermons on his See also: death will be found in J
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P
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See also: Migne, Patrologia See also: Latina, clxxxii., clxxxiii.; see also See also: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, ed
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J
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O'See also: Donovan (Dublin, 1851); G
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Germano, Vita, gesti e predittioni del padre See also: san Malachia (Naples, 1670) ; the ecclesiastical histories of Ireland by J
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Lanigan (1829) and W
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D
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Killen (1875); A
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Bellesheim, Geschichte der katholischen Kirche in Irland, Bd
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I
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(See also: Mainz, 189o) ; G
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T . Stokes, Ireland and theSee also: Celtic Church (6th ed., 19o7); J
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O'Hanlon, Life of See also: Saint Malachy (Dublin, 1859) ; articles in See also: Dictionary of See also: National Biography and Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopedie fur protestantische Theologie
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On the Prophecy, see the
See also: treatise by C
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F
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Menetrier (See also: Paris, 1689); See also: Marquis of Bute in Dublin Review (1885); A
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See also: Harnack in Zeitschrift See also: fair Kirchengeschichte, Bd
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