[630] In Lecale, co. Down, near Downpatrick. There St. Patrick made his first convert, and there he died. It is not easy to explain why St. Bernard calls it a "region." See further, p. 113, n. 3. [631] Ulaid was a district which included the greater part of the present county of Down, and the southern part of Antrim. [632] For a similar avowal by Jocelin, who wrote in the same century as St. Bernard, and other illustrative passages, see Adamnan, p. 4. [633] See § 8, and above in this section. [634] The first of three healings of dumb persons. [635] Mark vii. 33. [636] The word "city" implies that there was a religious community at Antrim. That this was the case is proved by the round tower which still remains, and other evidence (Reeves, p. 63). But apparently the _Annals_ do not refer to any monastery or church at that place. See, however, _U.A._ and _A.F.M._ at 1096 for a possible exception. [637] 1 Tim. vi. 13. [638] Ps. lii. 8 (vg.). [639] Ps. xlv. 7. [640] Cp. Serm. ii. § 8. [641] Luke vii. 40. [642] Acts vi. 5. [643] Printed text, _Conuama_, no MS. variants being recorded in the margin: perhaps a misprint for _Clonuama_. Mabillon has _Duevania_ and K _Duenuania_. A seems to read _Clueuuania_. All these variants point to _Cluain uama_ (the meadow of the cave), the Irish name for Cloyne, which is undoubtedly the place referred to (see next note). The next two miracles are concerned with childbirth. The first of them may have been related to St. Bernard by Marcus, the author of Tundale's Vision (see Friedel and Meyer, _La Vision de Tondale_, p. iv., and above p. lxv. n. 3). [644] Nehemiah Moriarty, who died in 1149 (_A.F.M._), being then, it is said, 95 years old (Tundale, p. 5). In Tundale (p. 53 f.) he is one of four bishops who were with St. Patrick in Paradise, the others being Cellach, Malachy and Christian O'Morgair. He is there (pp. 5, 54) called bishop of Cloyne (_Cluanensis_). [645] Cp. 1 Cor. x. 16. [646] Luke vi. 17. [647] Mark vi. 18. [648] 1 Cor. v. 5; 1 Tim. i. 20. [649] John viii. 4. [650] Ps. lviii. 10 (vg.). [651] Probably Dermot MacMurrough, who became king of Leinster in 1126, and died in 1171. He was driven out of his kingdom in 1166, and then invited the Anglo-Normans to come to his aid. The result was the conquest of Ireland. His character merits the description which St. Bernard gives of it. [652] Rom. xvi. 18. [653] The first of three healings of paralysis. [654] John iv. 50. [655] Gen. ii. 21. [656] Mark viii. 3. [657] Acts xiii. 11, etc. [658] Mark vii. 34. [659] Cp. Acts xii. 9. [660] Gen. xlv. 26 (vg.). [661] Acts iii. 8-10. [662] Mark vi. 49.