Life
?-431 [‘disciple of Pallas Athene’]; anti-Pelagian Christian missionary to Ireland; commissioned by Pope Celestine I in 431; travelled to Wicklow and died within the year, to be followed by St. Patrick.
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Criticism
L. Bieler, ‘The Mission of Palladius’, in Traditio, VI (1948) [WB Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition, IAP 1976; 1984.] And note that the name means.
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Commentary
P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ancient Ireland (1903 & edns.), Chap. X, ‘Christianity’: Christians in Ireland before Patrick; St Prosper of Aquitaine records that Pope Celestine sent Palladius ‘to the Scots believing in Christ, to be their first bishop’, and was copied by Bede; Palladius’s churches of Cille Fine [var. Killeen Cormac], Tech-na-Roman, and Domnach Arte; &c.
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