. . . . And hence it is that he wrote unto
Henry Abbot of Sartis one Book of the Purgatory of St. Patrick and
one Book of the Pains of Purgatory. He flourished in the year of
Grace 1140." -- "A Brief History of St. Patrick's Purgatory". Paris,
1718. Preface.
"Cesario," which carelessness or the exigency of metre has separated
from the "Esturbaquense," of the next line is Caesarius of
Heisterbach, a well-known hagiological writer of whom Adrien Baillet
thus speaks:--
"Un religieux Allemand de l'ordre de Citeaux nomme 'Cesaire de
Heisterbach', qui mourut du tems de l'empereur Frederic II. travailla
aussi a la vie des Saints." He adds in a note:--
"Cesaire se fit moine l'an 1198, au Val de Saint de Pierre, dit
autrement Heisterbach, pres de la ville de Bonne, dans le diocese de
Cologne, et ne mourut que pres de quarante ans apres. Il avoit ete
maitre des novices dans son couvent, et ensuite prieur de la maison
de Villiers." -- 'Discours sur l'histoire de la Vie des Saints. Les
Vies Des Saints'. Paris, 1739. T. i., p. xlvii.
"Mateo Rodulfo," printed as the names of one author in Calderon,
separate into two persons in Messingham and Montalvan. The first is
the well-known Mathew Paris, whose 'Relation of the vision of Owen
the Irish Soldier' is expressly referred to in these words by
Messingham, who also alludes to him more fully in his preface.
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