64. (35). As he was passing through a certain city and a great multitude was running together to him, by chance he saw a young man among the rest eager _to see_ him.[798] He had _climbed up_ on a stone, and standing on tip-toes, with outstretched neck, contemplating him with eyes and mind, showed himself to him as a kind of new Zacchaeus.[799] And it was not hid from Malachy (for the Holy Spirit revealed it) that he had truly come _in the spirit and power of_ Zacchaeus.[800] He took no notice, however, at the time, and passed on in silence. But in the hospice that night he told the brothers how he had seen him and what he had foreseen concerning him. But on the third day behold he came with a certain nobleman, his lord, who disclosed the wish and desire of the young man, and asked that he would deign to receive him on his commendation, and have him henceforth among his companions. And Malachy recognizing him said, "There is no need that man should commend him _whom_ already _God has commended_."[801] And taking him by the hand he delivered him over to our abbot Congan[802] and he to the brothers. But that young man--still living if I mistake not--the first lay conversus of the monastery of the Suir,[803] has testimony from all that he lives a holy life among the brothers, according to the Cistercian Order. And the disciples recognized also in this incident that Malachy had _the spirit of prophecy_,[804] and not in this only, but in that which we shall add. 65. When he was offering the sacraments,[805] and the deacon had approached him to do something belonging to his office, the priest beholding him groaned because he had perceived that something was hidden in him that was not meet. When the sacrifice was over, having been probed privately concerning his conscience _he confessed and denied not_[806] that he had been _mocked_[807] in a dream that night. And Malachy enjoined penance upon him and said, "It was your duty not to have ministered to-day, but reverently to withdraw from sacred things and to show respect to so great and divine mysteries, that purified by this humiliation you might in future minister more worthily."