MAGNUS: The name applied to a saint remark able for his early missionary labors among the Swan. bians. The narrative of his life, however, by a process of incorporation not uncommon in medieval literature of the kind, is made up by the fusion of incidents belonging to two distinct persons, one in the seventh and the other in the eighth century -the former connected with St. Gall, the latter with the monastery of Füssen on the Lech, although he also probably came originally from St. Gall. Maginold and Theodo accompanied the Irish monk to the wilderness on the Steinach in 613; after his death they remained there, and Maginold is said to have lived until about the middle of the seventh century. The Füssen legend speaks of a monk Magnus, from his name presumably of Romaic origin, not Teutonic, like Maginold, as a contemporary of Wichbert, the first demonstrable bishop of Augsburg, toward the middle of the eighth century.. Wishing to convert a last pagan corner of his diocese, he sent to St. Gall for monks; and Magnus, with Theodo or Dieto (an analogy with the older legend), went forth to help him, the former working in the valley of the Lech and founding the monastery of Fussen, where he died about the middle of the eighth century. When about 851 Bishop Lanto of Augsburg translated his relics, a life was made up, based on tradition, but tradition a century old, and attributed to the contemporary Dieto, here called Theodore. In the last decade of the ninth century the abbot-bishop Solomon III. erected the church St. Magnus at St. Gall, and obtained relics of the patron from Füssen, together with the life, which then at St. Gall was fused with the story of the local Maginold.

(G. Meyer von Knonau.)

Bibliography: The literature is indicated in Pottheat, Weqweiaer, p. 1444. The Vita mentioned in the text is with other material in ASB, Sept., ii. 700-?81, ef. ABM, ii., pp. 505-510. Consult: Rettberg, KD, ii. 148-151; Friedrich, KD, ii. 654-658.

MAGOG. See Gog and Magog; and Table of the Nations.

MAGUIRE, JOHN ALOYSIUS: Roman Catholic archbishop of Glasgow; b. at Glasgow Sept. 8, 1851. He was educated at St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, Stonyhurst College, the University of Glasgow, and the College of the Propaganda, Rome, until 1875, and after being an assistant at the St. Andrew's Cathedral at Glasgow, from 1875 to 1879, was appointed secretary of the diocese, a position which he held four years. He was incumbent of Partick in 1883, but in the following year became canon of the cathedral of Glasgow, vicar-general in 1885, and provost of the chapter in 1893. In 1894 he was consecrated titular bishop of Troomada) and appointed to assist the archbishop of Glasgow, whom he succeeded in the archiepiscopal office in 1902.