In the isles of the Tyrrhene sea he remained; In them he meditated; He read the canon with Germanus-- This, histories make known." [123] _Canons_--This Canon is found in the Book of Armagh, and in that part of that Book which was copied from _St.Patrick's own manuscript_.
Even could it be proved that St.Patrick never wrote these Canons, the fact that they are in the Book of Armagh, which was compiled, according to O'Curry, before the year 727, and even at the latest before the year 807, is sufficient to prove the practice of the early Irish Church on this important subject.
[124] _Further .-- Life of St.Patrick_, p.

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