Irenæus, one of the Fathers of the Church; was bishop of Lyons, and suffered martyrdom about 202; had been a disciple of Polycarp; wrote against the Gnostics in a work in Greek, which all to a few fragments in Latin is lost.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ireland, Samuel William Henry * Ire`ne