Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886

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Various. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886

The Welcome of the Divine Guest

John Scotus Erigena

Frau Hütt: A Legend of Tyrol

Echoes from the Pines

Musings from Foreign Poets

Erin on Columbia's Shore

The Ursuline Convent of Tenos

Southern Sketches

The Church and Modern Progress

Give Charity While You Live

Emmet's Rebellion

The Annunciation: – March 25th

Much-a-Wanted

Mixed Marriages

Farewell, My Home

The "Ten-Commandment" Theory

Bay State Faugh-a-Ballaghs

Drunkenness in Old Times

The Paschal Candle

Our New Cardinal

The Irish as Conspirators

Orders of Knighthood

Low-Necked Dresses

Columbus and Ireland

Miss Mulholland's Poems: "Vagrant Verses."

Seeing the Old Year Out: A True Story

Juvenile Department

Lenten Pastorals

Notes on Current Topics

Personal

Notices of Recent Publications

Obituary

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During the ninth century there lived few more remarkable men in Western Europe than John Scotus Erigena, the celebrated Irish theologian, philosopher and poet. Little beyond mere conjecture is known of his birth and early education. Indeed, the first well-authenticated facts in connection with his life is that in the year 851 he held the offices of rector and professor of dialectics in the famous Royal School of Paris, and that he occupied at the same time apartments in the palace of Charles the Bald, son of Louis le Débonnaire, and grandson of the Emperor Charlemagne. It may, however, be interesting to see what historical critics have to say of his birth and early antecedents.

Almost all writers of weight are agreed that John Scotus Erigena was an Irishman. In fact, there is hardly any room for doubt on the subject. If all other evidences of the fact were absent his very name furnishes proof enough that John was a son of the Emerald Isle. John Scotus Erigena simply means John the Irish Scot – Erigena being a corruption of a Greek word, the translation of which is "of the sacred isle," and every school boy knows that Ireland was known at that time throughout the nations of the earth as the "insula sanctorum et doctorum," the "island of saints and sages."

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How long he remained in Paris after his dismissal from the Royal School cannot be determined, nor do we know how he ended his days. Some assert that "he was murdered by a band of infuriated students at Oxford or Malmesbury," but this is by no means certain.

Jan. 18th, 1885.

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