 The "Life of Gildas" tells how King Ainmuire mac Sétnai sent for Gildas to restore ecclesiastical order in his kingdom in which the Catholic faith was being laid aside.The third order were priests and a few bishops, 100 in number, living in wildernesses on an ascetic diet (""qui in locis desertis habitabant et oleribus et aqua et eleemosynis vivebant, propria devitabant""), evidently hermits and monks.They had different masses, different rules, and different tonsures, (""alii enim habebant coronam, alii caesariem""), and celebrated different Easters, some on the fourteenth, some on the sixteenth, of the moon "with hard intention" (""cum duris intentionibus"") which perhaps means "obstinately".