[caption id="attachment_1399" align="alignnone" width="394" caption="Pope Gregory"][/caption] Above: PIcture of Pope Gregory According to the Cain Aigillne, he who was wisest, noblest, wealthiest, most intelligent, most popular, and most powerful of the whole tribe, most determined to exact his own rights and have his neighbour's wrongs redressed, was best entitled to be at its head. Not so the Church. The Corns Bescna says if an abbacy were vacant, preference should be given to the tribe of the naomh, provided they had among them a suitable ... Read More

[caption id="attachment_1391" align="alignnone" width="285" caption="Brehon Laws"][/caption] Above: Brehon Laws Document The relations between Church and people were minutely set out in the Brehon Laws. " The social connection which exists between the Church and its tenants of ecclesiastical land," says the Seanchus Mor,1 is preaching and offering, while requiem for souls is due from the Church to the tenants of ecclesiastical lands,  and the receiving of every son forinstruction, and   of   every   tenant, manach,  to  right repentance. Tithes and first fruits and alms are ... Read More