The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?
LXX A Fountain is produced out of the Earth.
LXXI The Dead are raised up; the King and the People are
converted; a Fountain is produced, and Tribute promised.
LXXII Of the Sentence pronounced on Murinus.
LXXIII Foylge is punished with a double Death, and the
deceiving Fiend is driven out of his body.
LXXIV Of the Saint's Prophecy concerning the Kings of Momonia.
LXXV How Dercardius and his Companions were destroyed.
LXXVI Of the Quarrel of the Two Brothers.
LXXVII Fourteen Thousand Men are miraculously refreshed
with the Meat of Five Animals.
LXXVIII Nineteen Men are raised by Saint Patrick from the Dead.
LXXIX The King's Daughter becomes a Nun.
LXXX The King Echu is raised from Death.
LXXXI A Man of Gigantic Stature is revived from Death.
LXXXII Of Another Man who was Buried and Raised Again.
LXXXIII Of the Boy who was torn in pieces by Swine
and restored unto Life.
LXXXIV The Prayers of the Saint confer Beauty on an Ugly Man.
LXXXV The Stature of the same Man is increased unto
a sufficient Height.
LXXXVI Of Saint Olcanus, the Teacher and Bishop,
raised out of the Earth.
LXXXVII How the Tooth of Saint Patrick shone in the River.
LXXXVIII The Saint Prophesieth of the Virgin Treha,
and a Veil is placed on her Head by an Angel.
LXXXIX Saint Patrick Prophesieth of the Sanctity
of Saint Columba.
XC The River is Divided in Twain, and Blessed.
XCI The Prophecy that Patrick made unto Connedus.
XCII Of Mannia and the other Islands Converted unto God.
XCIII Of the Saint's Prophecy concerning Six Priests,
and of a Skin which he bestowed to them.
XCIV Saint Patrick Continueth his Preaching Three Days.
XCV Of the Vision of the Blessed Brigida,
and its Explanation.
XCVI Of the Angels of God, of the Heavenly Light,
and of the Prophecy of Saint Patrick.
XCVII The Temptation of the Nun is Subdued.
XCVIII Of Saint Comhgallus, and the Monastery foreshowed
of Heaven.
XCIX The Saint Prophesieth of the Obstinate Fergus
and of his Children.
C The Malediction of the Saint is laid upon the Stones
of Usniach.
CI Of the Woman in Travail, and of her Offspring.
CII The Bishop Saint Mel catcheth Fishes on the Dry Land.
CIII The Footprints of Certain Virgins are impressed on a Stone.
CIV The Earth is raised in the midst of the Stream.
CV Of the Altar and the Four Chalices discovered under
the Earth.
CVI A Treasure is Twice discovered in the Earth by Swine.
CVII Saint Patrick prophesieth of the two Brothers.
CVIII The Penitence of Asycus the Bishop.
CIX The Tempest of the Sea is Composed.
CX The Miracle of the Waters is Repeated.
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