CHAPTER I.

THE CHURCHES IN THE WEST.

PAGE Early notices of the British Church 1 Church of Saint Ninian 2 Mission of Saint Columbanus to Gaul 6 Controversy regarding Easter 7 Three orders of Saints in the early Irish Church; Secular, Monastic, and Eremitical 12 The Church of Saint Patrick 14 Collegiate Churches of Seven Bishops 24 Church of the Southern Picts 26 Early Dalriadic Church 33 Church south of the Firths of Forth and Clyde 35 Apostasy of early Churches 39