As he passed, therefore, through the village called Cruggleton,[570] a dumb girl met him. While he prayed _the string of her tongue was loosed and she spake plain_.[571] Then he entered the village which they call St. Michael's Church,[572] and before all the people cured a woman who was brought to him, mad and bound with cords; and when he had sent her away restored he went on. But when he came to Portus Lapasperi,[573] he waited there for a passage some days; but the time of delay did not pass idly. In the interval an oratory is constructed of twigs woven into a hedge, he both giving directions and himself working. When it was finished he surrounded it with a wall, and blessed the enclosed space for a cemetery. The merits of him who blessed, the miracles, which are said to be wrought there frequently to this day, sufficiently declare. 41. Hence it came that they were in the habit of carrying thither from the neighbouring places those _that were_ infirm and _diseased_, and _many_ were healed.[574] A woman paralysed in all her limbs, brought thither on a waggon, returned home on foot, having waited only one night in the holy place, not in vain, for the mercy of the Lord.[575] * * * * * Let these incidents--a few out of many--suffice with reference to that place; for now we must proceed with what remains. FOOTNOTES: [507] The pall is a sort of collar, made of lamb's wool, which every metropolitan is required to obtain from the Pope, and without which he cannot exercise his functions. From the end of the eleventh century it has been described in papal bulls as the symbol of "the fullness of the pontifical office" (_Catholic Encyclopedia_, xi. 428). For the date of Malachy's decision to go to Rome, see p. 72, n. 3. [508] 1 Sam. xiv. 36, 40 (vg.). [509] Armagh. [510] Cashel, the seat of the kings of Munster. It was certainly the see of an archbishop in 1110, when Malchus subscribed the Acts of Rathbreasail as archbishop of Cashel. For the date of its foundation see p. xxxv. f.