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Show EARLY HUSH SCHOLARSHIP. In his history of the "Monks of the West," Montalembert pays an eloquent tribute to the early Irish missionaries. We know that wherever those Irish monks went they founded colleges and monasteries. They laid the foundation founda-tion of modern culture and conization, coniza-tion, which has been conclusively proved by the researches of German and Celtic philogists. Zimmer in his work on "The Irish Element in Mediaeval Me-diaeval Culture," says of the Irish missionaries: "They were instructors in every known branch of science and learning of the time, possessors and bearers of a higher culture than was at that period pe-riod to be found anywhere on the continent, con-tinent, and can surely claim to have been the pioneers to have laid the cornerstone of western culture on the continent, the rich results of which Germany shares and enjoys today, in common with all other civilized nations." na-tions." The Irish monks carried the Gospel and the torch of learning to what are today the great nations of Europe. Sedulius, who has been called the Christian Virgil, invented rhyme in the fifth century. His name was O'Sheil. Virgilius, who discovered the rotundity rotundi-ty of the earth 700 years before Cor-pernicus Cor-pernicus was born, was bishop of Saltzbryrg. Who was Virgilius? He was an Irishman by birth and education, educa-tion, and his name was O'Farrell. In triumph and defeat the Irish have been devoted to Faith and Fatherland for more than a thousand years. |