[314] _Conversus._ Cp. p. 14, note 1. The meaning is that after his recovery Malchus entered the community of Bangor. [315] Acts ix. 35. [316] 2 Kings xviii. 6. [317] John v. 14. [318] The abbey founded by Malachy at Soulseat. See § 68. [319] _Demorabatur_, literally, _lingered_, or _tarried_. The fact seems to be that Bangor was Malachy's headquarters for the rest of his life, except the ten years which intervened between his expulsion from it (§ 18), and his resignation of the see of Armagh (§ 31). See p. 33, note 1. St. Bernard was apparently puzzled by the fact that Malachy continued to live at Bangor after his consecration, instead of going to the see-city; and he makes a not very satisfactory apology for it. [320] The city is evidently Connor; but it is not near Bangor. The two places are twenty-five miles apart, and Belfast Lough lies between them. In Malachy's day they were in different tribal territories. CHAPTER III _St. Malachy becomes Bishop of Connor; he builds the Monastery of Iveragh._ 16. (10). At that time an episcopal see was vacant,[321] and had long been vacant, because Malachy would not assent: for they had elected him to it.[322] But they persisted, and at length he yielded when their entreaties were enforced by the command of his teacher,[323] together with that of the metropolitan.[324] It was when he was just entering the thirtieth year of his age,[325] that he was consecrated bishop and brought to Connor; for that was the name of the city through ignorance of Irish ecclesiastical affairs St. Bernard misunderstood the information supplied to him, and thus separated Malachy's tenure of the abbacy of Bangor from his episcopate, though the two were in reality conterminous. For the significance of Malachy's recall to the North, see Introduction, p. liii. f.; and for a fuller discussion, _R.I.A._, xxxv. 250-254.. [Sidenote: 1124]