ring the whole
course of his life. Conon, by the purity and fervor in which he served
God, was a saint from his infancy. The Isle of Man, which was a famous
ancient seat of the Druids, is said to have received the seeds of the
Christian faith by the zeal of St. Patrick. St. Conon, passing thither
from Scotland, completed that great work, and is said to have been made
bishop of Man, or of Sodor, supposed by these authors to have been
anciently, a town in this island. This bishopric was soon after united
with that of the Hebrides or the Western islands, which see was fixed in
the isle of Hi, Iona or Y-colmkille. St. Conon died in the isle of Man,
about the year 648. His name continued, to the change of religion, in
great veneration throughout the Hebrides, or islands on the West of
Scotland.[1] On St. Conon, see Leslie, Hist. of Scotland, &c.

Footnotes:
1. In some few of these islands, the laird and all the inhabitants
remain still Catholics; as Banbecuis, under Ranal Mac Donald;
South-Vist, under Alan Mac Donald of Moydart, whose ancestors were once
kings of these islands; Barry under Mac Neil; Canny, and Egg, and some
others. In many others there are long since no Catholics, as in Lewis,
North-Vist, Harries, St. Kilda, &c. See the latest edition of the
Present State of England and bishop Leslie's nephew, in his MS. account,
&c.

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JANUARY XXVII.

ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM,

ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE, AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH.

From Socrates, Theodoret, and other historians: as also from the saint's
works; and his life, written by way of dialogue, with great fidelity, by
his friend and strenuous advocate Palladius, a holy bishop, but a
distinct person from Palladius the bishop of Helenopolis and author of
the Lausiac history, who was then young, and is evidently distinguished
by this writer in many places, as Tillemont, Montfaucon, and Stilting
show against Baillet and others; though also Palladius, bishop of
Helenopolis, exerted himself in defence of St. Chrysostom. Palladius,
author of the Dialogue on the life of St. Chrysostom, was never accused
of Origenism except by those who, at least in the proofs alleged for
this charge, confounded him with the bishop of Helenopolis. F. Stilting
clears also the latter from the charge of Origenism, and answers the
arguments produced by Baronius against him. Comm. Hist. Sec.1, p. 404. The
later Greek panegyrists, George, patriarch of Alexandria, in 620, the
emperor Le