The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings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?
One time a blind man went to meet Patrick; he went in haste with the
desire of being healed. One of Patrick's people laughed at him. "My
_debroth_," said Patrick, "it would be fit that you were the blind
person." The blind man was healed, and the hale was made blind, quod
utrimque factum est. Mignae is the name of the person who was blinded;
and he is the second man of Patrick's people who remained in
Disert-Patrick, which is near the well at Cross-Patrick, and Donnmall was
the other. Ruan, son of Cucnamha, Amhalgaidh's charioteer, that was
healed there. Roi-Ruain is the name of the place where the blind was
healed, and it belonged to Patrick afterwards. He met two _bacachs_ in
Ochtar-Caerthin. They complained to him of their infirmity, for they
found it difficult to proceed through mountain or plain. What more shall
I say? They were healed. He went to Domhnach-Mor, where Bishop Mucna
is. He went afterwards to Cross-Patrick, where Aedh Fota, son of
Eochaidh, son of Oengus, came to him; and he healed him from lameness at
the fountain to the west of Cross-Patrick; and he (Aedh) presented to him
a plot of land there, where he founded a residence, and he left two of
his family there--viz., Teloc and Nemnall. Enna saw the druids (magi)
wishing to kill Patrick, and he said to his son Conall, "Go and protect
Patrick, that the magi may not kill him." Patrick perceived them, and
ethereal fire burned them, to the number of nine.
He then founded Cill-Alaidh, and he left an illustrious man of his family
there--_i.e._, Bishop Muiredhach. Patrick baptized women--viz., Crebriu
and Lesru, the two daughters of Glerann, son of Cummen. It was they that
called upon Patrick from their mother's womb when he was in the islands
of the Tyrrhene Sea. They are patronesses of Cill-Forglainn, in
Hy-Amhalghaidh or Tirawley, to the west of Muaidh.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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