CELTIC CHURCH NOT IN COMMUNION WITH ROME: AN OUTLINE OF THE POSSIBLE SOURCES (in Russian, 2006)

(A preliminary overview)

The paper deals with only two fields, liturgy and hagiography.
In liturgy, there are some reasons to state that the papar were using an archaic Christian calendar that could be identified with that of the Celtic Church. So, the Celtic monastic colonization of the Northern islands is to be attributed to those who became a persecuted minority after the capitulation of Iona in 716.
As to the hagiography, there is an important problem to discern between the legends of the time of the Celtic autarky of the 6th century and the legends generated in the situation of the schism of the 7th century. So, I was able to point out only one source, Bethu Brigte, that is, the original recension of its lost Latin original (composed, according to McCone, by Aileranus in the middle of the 7th century). Here, the scene of the consecration of St Brigit as a bishop has an outstanding anti-Roman meaning.