 It was White who found a copy of Adamnan’s "Vita Sancti Columbae" ("Life of St. Columba") in a chest in Schaffhausen.His biographical notices of early Irish saints were utilized in the "Acta SS", and the Bollandists acknowledged the assistance which he gave to Father Heribert Rosweyde.What gave him the bent towards early Irish history seems to have been the publication in Frankfurt by William Camden of two works by Gerald of Wales, which he felt libelled Ireland and its people.