 John Colgan ("Trias Thaumaturga", p. 518) speaks as if he were inclined to identify both these persons with the author of an early Irish hymn upon Saint Brigid.The glosses upon Aengus and the "Martyrology of Gorman", while seemingly treating them as distinct, prove that the matter admits of no certainty.Some modern hagiographers are inclined to regard the Saint Broccán of 8 July as the amanuensis and possibly the nephew of Saint Patrick.