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Mochuda said to him: "Thus shall you be with one eye closed and a grin on your countenance to the end of your life; and of your descendants many will be similarly afflicted." Yet another member of the company, one Cailche, scurrilously abused and cursed Mochuda. To him Mochuda said: "Dysentery will attack you immediately and murrain that will cause your death."
Then Mochuda placed his foot upon the king's neck and measured the royal body with his foot. Against this proceeding of Mochuda's a member of the king's party protested in abusive and insulting terms "It is a haughty act of yours, laying your foot upon the king's neck, for be it known to you the body on which you trample is worthy of respect."
Mochuda knew that it was in contempt for divine power the druid proposed this, and the branch put forth leaves on the instant. The druid demanded "In the name of your God, put blossom on it." The druid said: "Follower of Christ, cause the fruit to ripen." Mochuda blessed the tree and the fruit, fully ripe, fell to the earth.
They encamped near Rahen and the king sent his brother Diarmuid with some others to expel Mochuda and to put him out by force which Diarmuid pledged his word he should do. It was in the choir at prayer that Diarmuid found Mochuda. Mochuda, though he knew his mission, asked Diarmuid why he was come and what he sought.
Things went on thus for three days the monk doing all he could to placate the miller. Nevertheless the miller did not cease his persecution, nor the brother his hate of the miller. On the third day Mochuda directed the brother to confess to him again. The brother said: "This is my confession, Father, I do not yet love the miller."
Mochuda, with his following, next visited the cross already mentioned and here, turning to the king, he thus addressed him: "Behold the heavens above you and the earth below."
Mochuda replied: "It is not permitted us by God to stay our journey anywhere till we come to the place promised to us by the holy men." About the same time there came messengers from the king of Leinster to the king of Munster praying the latter, by virtue of league and alliance, to come to his assistance as Leath-Chuinn and the north were advancing in great force to ravage Leinster.
There are, for instance, three independent Lives of St. Mochuda and one of these is in two recensions. The surviving Lives naturally divide themselves into two great classes the Latin Lives and the Irish, written in Latin and Irish respectively. We have a Latin Life only of some saints, and Irish Life only of others, and of others again we have a Latin Life and an Irish.
He immediately sent messengers to seek the youth throughout the country, and one of these found him sitting, as indicated, in the shadow of the doorway of the bishop's house. The messenger took Mochuda with him back to the king. The latter questioned him: "My child, why have you stayed away in this manner?"
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