Nicholas Fitzsimon
Martyrological notice
Nicholas Fitzsimon, S.J., in his "Catalogue of Irish Saints," marks on this day Erlulph and Bevo as the apostles of Iceland, A.D. 890, and Colgan gives their acts fiom Anagrim Jonas. Hist. Islandiae, c. 7. " Helgo, surnamed Biola, a descendant of Norwegian Barons, who dwelt in the province of Kialarn, was not favourable to ihe Pagan religion, for he received into his neigh- bourhood an Irish Christian, an exile named Ernulph, together with his families and allowed him to erect a church under the name of St. Columbus (Columba), in the village of Esuiberg. Buo, a young man also of the same province, burned a famous fane of human victims and all its gods."
Historical martyrology witness · Calendar of Irish Saints / Martyrology of Tallaght (1857)
Nicholas Fitzsimon, S.J., in his "Catalogue of Irish Saints," marks on this day Erlulph and Bevo as the apostles of Iceland, A.D. 890, and Colgan gives their acts fiom Anagrim Jonas. Hist. Islandiae, c. 7. " Helgo, surnamed Biola, a descendant of Norwegian Barons, who dwelt in the province of Kialarn, was not favourable to ihe Pagan religion, for he received into his neigh- bourhood an Irish Christian, an exile named Ernulph, together with his families and allowed him to erect a church under the name of St. Columbus (Columba), in the village of Esuiberg. Buo, a young man also of the same province, burned a famous fane of human victims and all its gods."