Note 639 — Chapter VIII · THE SCOTTISH CHURCH.
Reading edition
Annals of the Four Masters, p. 1027. Among the relics said to have been preserved at Durham we find ‘De ossibus et reliquiis Sancti Columkelli abbatis. De ossibus Sanctæ Brigidæ gloriosæ virginis. De ossibus et reliquiis Sancti Patricii episcopi et Hyberniæ apostoli.’—Hist. Dun. Script. Tres, p. cccxxx. These are obviously the same relics which were said to be at Down, but how they came to be claimed by the coärbs of Durham we cannot tell.