Note 153 — Chapter II · THE MONASTIC CHURCH IN IRELAND.
Reading edition
This is the number we have seen in the small establishment of Mobhi Clarenach. Saint Brendan went to Bishop Ere when five years old, ‘ad legendum ... et quinquaginta ex illis manserunt sub lege Sancti Episcopi Erci usque ad mortem suam.’—Act. S. Brendani, c. vi.