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ST MALACHY (c. 1094-1148)

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MALACHY (c. 1094-1148)  , otherwise known as Maol-Maodhog (or Maelmaedhog) Ua Morgair, See also:archbishop of See also:Armagh -See also:MALACHY, ST and papal See also:legate in See also:Ireland, was See also:born at Armagh . 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 . In See also:order to improve his knowledge of the See also:Roman See also:ritual he spent four years with Malchus, See also:bishop of See also:Lismore (in See also:Munster), a strong See also:advocate of Romanism . Here he became acquainted with Cormac See also:MacCarthy, See also:king of See also: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 See also:Connor (now a small See also:village near See also:Ballymena) . After the See also:sack of that See also: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) . 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 . Having finally settled the See also: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 See also:sanction of the See also:pope . 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 .

On his way to Rome he visited See also:

Clairvaux, and thus began a lifelong friendship with St See also:Bernard . Malachy was received by See also:Innocent II. with great See also: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 See also:general See also:council of the bishops, See also:clergy and nobles." On his way See also:home Malachy revisited Clairvaux, and took with him from there four members of the Cistercian order, by whom the See also:abbey of Mellifont (in the See also:county of See also:Louth) was afterwards founded in 1141 . For the next eight years after his return from Rome Malachy was active in the See also:discharge of his legatine duties, and in 1148, at a See also:synod of bishops and clergy held at Inis-See also: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 . Malachy was canonized by See also:Clement III. in 1190 . The See also:influence of Malachy in Irish ecclesiastical affairs has been compared with that of See also:Boniface in See also:Germany . He reformed and reorganized the Irish Church and brought it into subjection to Rome; like Bonif See also:ace, he was a zealous reformer and a See also:promoter of See also:monasticism . But perhaps his See also: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 . It is now generally attributed to the See also:year 1590, and is supposed to have been forged to support the See also:election of See also:Cardinal Simoncelli to the papal See also:chair .

St Bernard's Life of Malachy, and two sermons on his See also:

death will be found in J . P . See also:Migne, Patrologia See also:Latina, clxxxii., clxxxiii.; see also See also:Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, ed . J . O'See also:Donovan (Dublin, 1851); G . Germano, Vita, gesti e predittioni del padre See also:san Malachia (See also:Naples, 1670) ; the ecclesiastical histories of Ireland by J . Lanigan (1829) and W . D . Killen (1875); A . Bellesheim, Geschichte der katholischen Kirche in Irland, Bd . I . (See also:Mainz, 189o) ; G .

T . See also:

Stokes, Ireland and the See also:Celtic Church (6th ed., 19o7); J . O'Hanlon, Life of See also:Saint Malachy (Dublin, 1859) ; articles in See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography and See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopedie See also:fur protestantische Theologie . On the Prophecy, see the See also:treatise by C . F . Menetrier (See also:Paris, 1689); See also:Marquis of See also:Bute in Dublin See also:Review (1885); A . See also:Harnack in Zeitschrift See also:fair Kirchengeschichte, Bd . III .

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