THE CULDEES.
application to the disciples of
does
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us to agree with the
Bollandist, Van Hecke,^ who cannot believe that there was any relationship between the
Columban monks and the Culdees. The traces of their presence found at so many different
Columba;
less
still
entitle
it
which we know that Celtic Christianity was once dominant, and in some of
which the Saint of lona had a foundation, and at others none, is of itself more than suggestive
places, in all of
it represents the monks and
the Celtic Church without limitation, as well as those understood to be tlicir
of the fact that there is nothing exclusive in the term, but that
clerics of
successors and representatives."
Great stress has been laid by Dr Eeeves on the "