The Latin & Irish lives of Ciaran

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least that excelled that feast. For the folli os Colum Cisse came from 1, after a long time, to this city. A

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Then the stone pillow was taken from him, to emehim. Nay V said he, V put it under my inoulder. Qui enim perseuerauerit usque in finem, hic saluus erit Then angels 1illed the space belween heaven and earth

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for prociatming truth, like Ρaul the apostle. A mansuli of the grace of the Holy Spirit and of chastity; like

Christ is called Son of the wright V in the Gospei hie est Filius fabri, that is, of Joseph). Thirty-three years

by the intercession of Saint Claran, that we may reachthat unity. Μay we clweli there, in saecula saeculortimi

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has atready been Ahown in the Introduction, that this Life, with iis homiletic preface, was a Sermon writtento be preached or read on the festival of the saint

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intersperses his Work throughout with verse extracis, appe ed to as the authority for the various statements which he has occasion to mahe. In the present Sectionhe draws upon a hymn made by Colum Cille in honouros Claran. To this hymn, and to iis Surviving fragmentS, We Shali retum in commenting umn incident LI, where the composition of the hymn is alluded to. The Ante-nalal Prophecies. Patricli is gail also to

os Claran and that os Christ have made such prophecies es cialty appropriate in the preSent Case.

whom, in accorclance With a cuStom frequent in early Ιristi monasticism, Patricli is Sald to have maintained

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Μayoj. He made his way to the then empty site os Clonmacnois, and sat in the split trunk of a hollow e tree. Α Stranger made his appearance, and the leper, having assured himself that he was a Christian, requestedhim to uproot a bundie of rusties and to give him in aclean Vesset of the water that would bursi forth. Then

closed upon them. and that they could not be recoverecl. In sorrow for their loss, he related the event to Ρatricli; and for his comfort he was toto that a Son of Life to wit Claran, son of the wright was destined to comethither, and that he would need the relics. These relicsare mentioned in VG 41; though Benen and Cumlach the leperi are there said to have lest them, not Μuinis. From this reference we learn that they were attributed to Sainis Peter and Paul. It is quite clear that this curious story has reachedus in a fragmentary and expurgated form; and that is we had the whole narrative before us it would assordus an indication that Clonmacnois was the site os an earlier, Ρagan, Sanctuary. It wili most probably befound to be an invariable rule that the early Christianestablishments in Ireland occupy the siles of Ρagansanctuaries: the monastery having been founded tore-consecrate the holy place to the True Faith. The