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The advice commended itself to Mochuda and he thanked the king for it. Thereupon he abandoned his cell to the aforesaid bishops and determined to set out alone as a pilgrim to the northern part of Ireland.
The king and his hosting went to the aid of Leinster in the latter's necessity. Mochuda journeyed on through Muscraige Oirthir the chief of which territory received him with great honour. Next he came into the Decies. Mochuda by the grace of God made peace amongst them, and dismissed them in amity.
They were constrained to obey and the burden proved to be Mochuda. He said mournfully, "My God, it is a dreadful work you are about." Mochuda said gently: "Son, it were well for me had that been done to me for I should now be numbered among the holy martyrs.
Sometimes Mochuda herded the swine in the woods and at other times he remained with the king in his court. One day as Mochuda was keeping his herd as usual beside the river already alluded to, he heard the bishop and his clerics pass by, chanting psalms as they went along.
When a chief parishioner lies seriously ill in distant Corca Duibhne, Mochuda himself comes all the way from the centre of Ireland to administer the last rites to the dying man, and so on. The relations of the people to the Church and its ministers are in many respects not at all easy to understand. Oblations, for instance, of themselves and their territory, &c., by chieftains are frequent.
The monk answered: "One day while we were drawing logs of timber from the wood my girdle broke from the strain, so that my clothes hung loose. A monk behind me saw this and cutting a twig tied it so tightly around my sides that it has caused my flesh to mortify." Mochuda asked "And why did you not loosen the twig?" It was a whole year since the withe had been fastened around him.
The house steward went to Mochuda to tell him that Lachtaoin was ill and required milk. Mochuda ordered the steward to fill a pitcher with water and bring it to him and this order was executed. Mochuda blessed the water which immediately was changed into sweet new milk apparently of that day's milking.
One day Mochuda came to a place called Cluain-Breanainn where apples abounded. His followers asked some apples for him but the orchard owner refused them. Said Mochuda: "From this day forward no fruit shall grow in you orchard for ever," and that prophecy has been fulfilled. The virtue of these monks surpassed belief and Mochuda wished to mitigate their austerities before their death.
The druid marvelled exceedingly and went his way. A poor man came to Mochuda on another occasion with an ill timed request for milk, and beer along with it. Mochuda was at the time close by the well which is known as "Mochuda's Well" at the present time; this he blessed changing it first into milk then into beer and finally to wine.
Mochuda, now grown old and of failing powers and strength, was wearied and worried by the incessant clamour of building operations the dressing of stones and timber carried on by the multitude of monks and artisans. He therefore by consent and counsel of the brethren retired to a remote, lonely place situated in a glen called "Mochuda's Inch" below the great monastery.
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