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Patrick, in presence of many persons, hearing of the miracle gave glory and thanks to God and the name of Declan was magnified. With this extraordinary miracle wrought by Declan we wish to conclude our discourse. The number of miracles he wrought, but which are not written here, you are to judge and gather from what we have written. On that account we shall pass them by.
Then Declan declared: "It was not I who drove out the sea but God in His own great power who expelled it and He would have done still more had you not spoken the words you have said."
Now, in that island depastured the sheep belonging to the wife of the chieftain of Decies and it is thence that it derives its Irish name Ard-na-Ccaorac, scil.: there was in it a high hill and it was a promontory beautiful to behold. One of the party, ascending the summit of the hill, said to Declan: "How can this little height support your people?"
When Declan had spent a considerable time in Rome he was ordained a bishop by the Pope, who gave him church-books and rules and orders and sent him to Ireland that he might preach there. Having bidden farewell to the Pope and received the latter's blessing Declan commenced his journey to Ireland.
Declan thereupon addressed them prophetically: "Permit the bell to precede you and follow it exactly and whatsoever haven it will enter into it is there my city and my bishopric will be whence I shall go to paradise and there my resurrection will be."
Aongus Mac Nathfrich went to meet him soon as he heard the account of his coming. Then Patrick baptised him and blessed himself and his people and his city. Patrick heard that the prince of the Decies had not been baptised and did not believe, that there was a disagreement between the prince and Declan and that the former refused to receive instruction from the latter.
If anyone doubts this let him study the mind of the modern Irish peasant; let him get beneath its surface and inside its guardian ring of shrinking reserve; there he will find the same material exactly as composed the mind of the tenth century biographers of Declan and Mochuda. Dreamers and visionaries were of as frequent occurrence in Erin of ages ago as they are to-day.
The deer thereupon obediently and without effort carried Bishop Declan till he came to Magh Femhin, where, when he reached a house of entertainment, the saint unloosed the stag and bade him to go free as was his nature.
Now, in that island depastured the sheep belonging to the wife of the chieftain of Decies and it is thence that it derives its Irish name Ard-na- Ccaorac, scil.: there was in it a high hill and it was a promontory beautiful to behold. One of the party, ascending the summit of the hill, said to Declan: "How can this little height support your people?"
After this Declan returned to his own country to the Decies of Munster where he preached, and baptized, in the name of Christ, many whom he turned to the Catholic faith from the power of the devil. He built numerous churches in which he placed many of his own followers to serve and worship God and to draw people to God from the wiles of Satan.
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