consecrated him a bishop and sent him to Ireland "to the Scotti believing in Christ".

Background

The Palladii were reckoned among the noblest families of France and several of them held high rank about this time in the Church of Gaul.The Gallo-Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, in his poem De reditu suo, recounting his voyage from Rome to Gaul in 417, mentions a young relative of his called Palladius, who had been sent from Gaul to Rome to study law. He refers to Palladius's

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