Cogitosus
Life
Cogitosus was a monk of Kildare, an important monastery in Ireland, who wrote the oldest extant vita of Saint Brigid, Vita Sanctae Brigidae, around 650.Bitel, Lisa M (2002). Textual Practice Summer 2002, Vol. 16 Issue 2. Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost). P. 211. There is a controversy as to whether he was related to Saint Brigid.{{CathEncy|wstitle=Cogitosus}} Muirchú moccu Machtheni names Cogitosus as the first Irish hagiographer.[https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a1809 Breen,, Aidan. "Cogitosus", Dictionary of Irish Biography]
Cogitosus writes in fairly good Latin, much better indeed than might be expected in that age, likely drawing from earlier documents which had preserved older traditions of Brigid's life. His description of the church of Kildare with its interior decorations is specially interesting for the history of early Irish art and architecture. He describes in some detail the tombs of Brigid and Conleth. There are at least two contemporary English translations of Cogitosus's Life of St Brigid: one by Connolly and Picard in 1987[https://www.jstor.org/pss/25508920 The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1987, Vol. 117, p. 5 ff.], Cogitosus's Life of St Brigit: Content and Value (commentary by Sean Connolly) followed on page 11 ff. by 'Cogitosus's Life of St Brigit' translated by S. Connolly and J.-M. Picard, accessed 13 February 2012 and another in 1993 by Liam da Paor.St Patrick's World, Liam de Paor, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1993 - chapter 33, [http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic259231.files/Cogitosus.pdf Cogitosus's Life of St Brigid the Virgin], accessed 13 February 2012
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