It is noteworthy that VG calls Cremthann "King of Ireland." This is in accordance with the fact that the dynasty which united Ireland under the suzerainty of the King of Tara was of Connacht origin.[10] _The Wizard's Prophecy._--The phrase "the noise of a chariot under a king" is a stock formula in this connexion; compare, with Stokes, _Vita Sancti Aedui_ in Rees' _Lives of Cambro-British Saints_, p. 233 (also VSH, ii, 295). With the incident compare the story of the druid rising to welcome the parents of Saint Senan, and when ridiculed for thus showing honour to peasants explaining that it was to their unborn child that he was paying honour (LL, 1875). Observe that in both tales the druid is _mocked_. This touch doubtless belongs to the Christian chronicler, taking the opportunity of putting the minister of the rival creed in an invidious position. _Deacon Iustus_, according to VTP (p. 104) and Tirechan's _Collections regarding Saint Patrick_ (edited in VTP, see pp. 305, 318) was consecrated by Saint Patrick, who left with him his ritual book and his office of baptism, in Fidarta (Fuerty, Co. Roscommon). It was in his old age that he baptized Ciaran, out of Patrick's book--he was, indeed, according to the documents quoted, no less than 140 years of age. The glossators of the _Martyrology of Oengus_ (Henry Bradshaw Society edition, p. 128) confuse him with Euthymius, the deacon, martyred at Alexandria. The play on words ("it were fitting that the _just one_ should be baptized by a _Just One_") is lost in the Irish version, whence Plummer (VSH, i, p. xlix) infers that this document is a translation from a Latin original: but the fact proves nothing more than that the author of VG borrowed _this particular incident_, as he borrowed his preface, from a Latin writing. All these Lives are patchworks, and their component elements are of very different origins and dates. _The date of Ciaran's birth_ was 25 February, A.D. 515. The _Annals of Ulster_ says 511, or "according to another book," 516. The _Annals of Clonmacnois_ has the correct date, 515.