Culdee


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Cul`dee´

    (k l-d ´ or k l´d)
n.1.One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
The pure Culdees
Were Albyn's earliest priests of God.
- Campbell.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Some Search for her in Courts but in her Shape They only find dull laziness her Ape her Real Self though hy Born Rather dwells in Humble Cotes and pious culdee's cells.
Now those of you with three-yearold Thomas and Friends fans will understand why my daughter was so excited - in fact, SMR was the inspiration for the Culdee Fell Railway on the Island of Sodor.
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The attack happened in Culdee Street in Armagh and the victim was taken to Craigavon Area Hospital.
The Culdee is a course and distance winner while another who should go well is Frances Crowley's Monterey Bay even though he has not raced since winning at the Punchestown festival.
He declares that when I discovered, not long ago, that the old Planter's Gothic tower of Kilmore Church still encloses the stump of a round tower and that it was built on the site of a Culdee holy place, I felt a step nearer to that synthesis.
In her latest book, "All Good Gifts," published by Revell, author Kathleen Morgan introduces us to Devra MacKay, whose life as a prominent New York City plastic surgeon leaves no room for her family's Colorado ranch, Culdee Creek.
Prominent for most of the journey, he finally finished fifth, beaten five-and-a-half lengths, to The Culdee.
The introductions are sometimes deficient as when Carey prints a martyrology prepared by Oengus the Culdee without relating the text to the Culdees' reforming program.
Dumville reminds us that such entries were becoming increasingly common in paraliturgical books in Ireland in the wake of the late eighth-century Culdee ascetic movement, and he explains their development in England on account of the necessity for the unlatinate (both lay people and some clergy) to participate verbally in the liturgy.
In the address that preceded Dove's at the Glasgow commemoration, William Maxwell Hetherington not only credited Wallace with having contributed to the achievement of Scottish national liberty, but argued that Wallace was himself a Culdee, opposed to Roman influence in the purer Christianity of Scotland.