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Thereupon Declan established a monastery in that place, scil. in Coningin and he placed there this holy community with a further band of disciples. Ultan however he took away with him to the place whither he went. Declan instituted therein a monastery of Canons, on land which he received from the king, and it is from him the place is named.

Declan knew the man amongst his own disciples who was holiest and most abounding in grace, scil., Ultan, already mentioned, and him he ordered to pray to God against the fleet. All Christians who witnessed this rejoiced and were glad and they gave great praise and glory to God and to Declan their own patron who caused the working of this miracle and of many other miracles besides.

After some time Declan set out to visit Aongus MacNatfrich, king of Cashel, to preach to him and to convert him to the faith of Christ. Declan however had two uterine brothers, sons of Aongus, scil.: Colman and Eoghan.

See J.B. Mozley's Letters, 13th March 1841. Scil., those cited in the preamble to this resolution. J.B. Mozley's Letters, 13th July 1841. The proceedings about No. 90 were a declaration of war on the part of the Oxford authorities against the Tractarian party.

Blessing the king he promised him prosperity here and heaven hereafter and assured him: "If any one of your posterity contemn my successors refusing me my lawful dues he will never reign over the kingdom of Kerry." This prophecy has been fulfilled. Here his many miracles won him the esteem of all. In that region he found two bishops already settled before him, scil.: Dibhilin and Domailgig.

Maolochtair gave that land to Mochuda who marked out a cell there where is now the city of Ardfinnnan, attached to which is a large parish subject to Mochuda and bearing his name. The wife of Maolochtair, scil: Cuciniceas, daughter of Failbhe Flann, king of Munster, had a vision, viz.: a flock of very beautiful birds flying above her head and one bird was more beautiful and larger than the rest.

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?"

The former document is in all essentials a very sober historical narrative accurate wherever we can test it, credible and harmonious on the whole. On one point do we feel inclined to quarrel with its author, scil.: that he has not given us more specifically the motives underlying Mochuda's expulsion from Rahen one of the three worst counsels ever given in Erin.

O'Connor gives a not very convincing explanation of the three-hundred-year "Lives," scil.: that the saint lived in three centuries during the whole of one century and in the end and beginning respectively of the preceding and succeeding centuries. This explanation, even if satisfactory for the three-hundred-year Lives, would not help at all towards the Lives of four hundred years.

Suffice it to glance in passing at one of the reasons which has been alleged in explanation, scil.: that the "Lives" are uncritical and romantic, that they abound in wild legends, chronological impossibilities and all sorts of incredible stories, and, finally, that miracles are multiplied till the miraculous becomes the ordinary, and that marvels are magnified till the narrative borders on the ludicrous.