It was in St. Sechnall's Church of Dunshaughlin that a beautiful Eucharistic Hymn, 'Sancti Venite,' was first sung, and most probably composed by that saint himself. In the Preface of the _Leabhar Breac_, it is said that this hymn was first chanted by angels in St. Sechnall's Church, on the occasion of his reconciliation with St. Patrick, to which we have already referred. The choir of angels was heard singing the hymn during the Holy Communion, and "hence arose the custom ever afterwards observed in Erin," says the writer, "of singing this hymn at the Communion;" and hence, too, the title which it bears in the _Antiphonary of Bangor_--the only ancient work in which it is found--"Hymn during the Communion of the Priests."[100] We could wish this beautiful hymn were still used in our national liturgy. Denis Florence M'Carthy has left us an excellent translation of this remarkable hymn, of which we give the first and last stanzas: "Draw nigh, ye holy ones, draw nigh, And take the body of the Lord, And drink the Sacred Blood outpoured, By which redeemed ye shall not die. * * * * * "The Source, the Stream, the First, the Last, Even Christ the Lord, who died for men, Now comes--but he will come again To judge the world, when time hath passed." The original stanzas are as follows:-- "Sancti Venite, Christi Corpus Sumite; Sanctum bibentes Quo redempti sanguinem. "Alpha et Omega, Ipse Christus Dominus, Venit venturus Judicare homines." St. Sechnall was the first Christian poet in Erin; may his name and memory linger long amongst the children of St. Patrick. VI.--ST. FIACC OF SLETTY.