ON ST. DEGA MACCAYRILL, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR,
IN IRELAND,
IN THE YEAR DLXXXVI.
PRELIMINARY COMMENTARY.
His cult, time of death, disciple, and observations upon the Life.
Dega Maccayrill, bishop and confessor, in Ireland (St.)
BY J. P.
This prelate, of a name commonly obscure among hagiologists — St. Dega, Daygæus, On various days Dagæus, Daganus, Maccayrill, that is, son of Cayrill — has a true and lawful cult in the sacred Calendars or Irish documents; although some commemorate him on one day and some on another. Among us, in volume III of February, in the Omitted at the XIX day of the same month, page 123, mention was made of him from Colgan in the Acts of the Saints of Ireland, and the examination of his Life was remitted to this XVIII day of August. In the manuscript Catalogues of the Saints of Ireland which are kept in our museum in our codex marked ✠ Ms. 167, he is noted on various days: for among those things which are prefixed as taken chiefly from the Hagiology of Ænæus or Ængus … written in Irish about eight hundred years ago, there stands Dega or Daygæus (that is), son of Cayril, XVIII August. But in another anonymous Catalogue, at the foot of which are recorded the Saints to whom a certain day cannot be assigned, there is St. Dega or Daygæus. Elsewhere also, among the Catalogues indicated, I find his name, without a day.
[2] Colgan at the XIX day of February, page 374, writes this: he is set down "The domestic Martyrologies commonly relate that the memory of St. Dagæus the bishop is celebrated on this XIX of February as of a man of most notable sanctity. Whence it may be suspected that he is the one of whom John Kirkstede … in his little work On the Chief Holy Prelates of Ireland writes thus: 'Daigæus, monk and bishop of Ireland, walked over the sea with dry feet: and raised from death a certain abbot and six other dead men.'" Then he brings forward the Cashel Calendar at the XVIII day of August: and in the Preface to the reader which is prefixed to the Acts of the Saints of Ireland, the author of the Martyrology or Calendar of Cashel is said to have flourished six hundred years before; and Colgan published his volume in the year of Christ 1645. From that Calendar, therefore, he brings forward this: St. Dagæus, son of Carellus, son of Lasrenus, son of Dalanus, son of Eugenius, son of Niall Naoigiallach. This Dagæus was a smith both in iron and in bronze, and a notable scribe. For he made three hundred bells, three hundred pastoral staves, and wrote three hundred books of the Gospels: and he was St. Kieran's chief smith.
[3] Having cited these things, Colgan supplies further information concerning that St. Dagæus, in the sacred Calendars, going on thus: "But this Dagæus, recorded by both authors, is no other than St. Dagæus, bishop of Iniscoindega in Ulster, who flourished before the middle of the sixth century, and of whom in his own Life is read this prophecy of St. Mochta" — which is contained below among us at number 3 of the same Life, so that it is altogether superfluous to transcribe that prophecy hither from Colgan. And the same hagiographer observes the following after his narration of the prophecy: "Because the chief feast of this St. Dagæus the bishop at Inis-Chaoin is celebrated not on this XIX day of February but on the XVIII of August, hence either that St. Dagæus the bishop whose memory is celebrated on this day is different from him; or, if he is the same, which is more likely, different feasts of the same Saint are recorded by our hagiographers. Whence we, being about to give the Life of the most holy Dagæus, full of prodigies, at the XVIII of August" (but the work was not carried so far) "forbear to discourse of him here at greater length." That his proper or chief feast was on the XVIII day of August the praised Colgan indicates when on the XV day of February, page 347, in his notes to the supplement of the Life of St. Berach, in which St. Dagæus is treated, he sends the reader to the same XVIII day of August.
[4] That day was also peculiar to our Saint with Whitford: especially on the XVIII day of August, on which he is said to have died. for in his Martyrology, published in the English tongue at London in the year 1526, he has a eulogy of him at the XVIII day of August, which runs thus: In Ireland, the feast of St. Dayge the confessor, who in his boyhood wrought many miracles: but afterwards raised thirteen persons to life, not without many other notable deeds: and he died in the hundred and fortieth year of his age, full of sanctity and perfection. And this thus far concerning the Saint's public cult: to which we most briefly subjoin this from Colgan concerning the year and day of his death. Thus, then, that hagiographer records of them at the XXIX day of January, page 193: In the year DLXXXVI St. Dagæus the bishop, son of Carellus, died on the XVIII of August, upon the authority of the Four Masters, whom he designates, having thus premised concerning them before his chronology, which he there sets out from page 189, partly from the Annals, namely, of the Four Masters, compiled from the most ancient Annals of Clonmacnoise, of Inisfallen, and of Senat. But concerning the Four Masters consult Colgan in the Preface indicated above. Moreover we too, with those Masters, have once and for all attached St. Dega's death to the same year of Christ 586; because, if this be not good and true, we have no better and truer at hand.
[5] St. Berach, our Saint's disciple, Besides those things which are contained in the Life of St. Dega concerning St. Berach, who was his disciple, in chapter 2, where this stands: A woman entering a mill … to grind her grain was wounded by a certain man, whom Berach, the disciple of blessed Daygæus, sent by him to her, at once healed. Likewise besides those things concerning that same woman's boy, who had been drowned in the waters, as is there narrated, and was afterwards recalled to life by St. Berach, whom for that cause our holy Bishop had sent; together with the prophecy uttered by St. Berach that it should not come to pass hereafter that anyone should ever again be drowned in that same part of the river; besides those things, I say, which stand there, it has seemed good to cull a few things which are said in the Supplement of the Life of the same St. Berach, and which conduce at once to the praise of the disciple and of the master. And so in the Supplement of that Life, which is given in Colgan from page 344, this is recorded: But after the holy boy Berach had completed the seventh year of his age, he was brought to St. Dagæus, son of Carillus, to be instructed in good letters and in the pages of divine knowledge: under which teacher he made such progress that he came forth a most wise man, famed and illustrious for signs and powers and for the prerogative of a singular obedience. By these things are confirmed and illustrated what the Life of St. Dagæus says in passing of Berach, namely that he was his disciple.
[6] the glory of his master, But what I just now brought forward from the same Life concerning the mill supplies me with occasion of bringing forward the following event from the praised Supplement, whether it be the same which the author of the Life of St. Dagæus touched upon only lightly, or whether this were different from that. The Supplement, then, has this: But on a certain day some guests turned aside to St. Dagæus, when he had at hand neither bread with which to refresh them, nor any [] of his servants or monks who could entertain them or serve them, except St. Berach. The pious Father therefore bids Berach carry the two measures of wheat which he had to the mill situated in the plain of Muirthemne, to be ground for the refreshment of the guests. Straightway Berach, the son of obedience, hastens to the mill to carry out his Father's commands: and when he had now arrived there, he found a certain woman with her little son waiting there for the grinding of the grain which she too had brought. But when the servant of Christ set forth his father's commands and the necessity*
of receiving the guests in charity, humbly set them forth, that woman of stiff neck and malignant mind obstinately refused to permit the man of God the use of the mill, and moreover assailed the holy youth and his master Dagæus with savage words and dreadful imprecations.
[7] But the gentle youth, seeing the inexorable temper of the stubborn woman, while he performs his commands, patiently bore her insolence, yet did not yield to her will; but, casting his thought upon God, he committed to the mill the grain which he had brought. Seeing which, the perverse woman throws in her own grain also at the same time, and thus both go on, and cease not from delivering their grain on this side and that to the mouth of the mill: until by a stupendous miracle they see flowing from the mill, according to the different nature of the grain put in, on the one side oaten flour, and on the other side wheaten flour separately. And when all who were present marveled astonished at this miracle, more wonderful things presently follow. For that it might be made more manifest to the world how greatly God detests and avenges injuries offered to his servants, the little son of the said woman, having fallen into the neighboring river, is drowned; and presently the mother herself, in punishment of her perversity, being stricken with the last agonies, forthwith departs from life. Presently, therefore, the neighborhood runs up, the friends and kinsfolk of the dead woman fly thither, crying out that St. Berach was the author of so great a misery, and therefore they strive to overwhelm him. But not even toward these was the divine chastisement slower: for the soles of their feet clung to the ground, their outstretched arms grew stiff, and they themselves, destitute of strength, stuck motionless in their whole body. But to these the Saint restored the liberty of their bodies, and to those their lost life, as is narrated at greater length in the same Supplement, page 345; to which the following are subjoined:
[8] After this St. Berach, having returned to the monastery of Inis-Caoin to his father Dagæus, he grows famous for miracles. out of that flour miraculously made, and afterwards not without a miracle increased for the food of a great multitude, abundantly refreshed the guests and the monks and many poor besides who came thither. But when St. Dagæus saw such great powers in his disciple, he said to him that he was unworthy of a disciple by whose teaching he himself ought rather to be instructed. Therefore, as he departed, he gave him a staff or crook, which in Irish is called bacullh gearr, that is, the short staff, and a cymbal, which is called clog-beraigh, that is, the bell of Berach, which is preserved at Cluan Dalacha to this day. The Life of St. Berach was illustrated by us in volume 11 of February, at the XV day of that month, from page 832, where on page 838 there are related from Colgan the things which we have produced above concerning that Saint — to be of service chiefly to those readers who do not have our month of February.
[9] Thus far you have what it seemed good to gather for illustrating the Life of St. Dega, bishop and confessor; our observations upon the Life which we here give other things which occur in the course of it we remit to the Annotations. We commit it to the press from our ancient parchment codex of Salamanca, which is marked ✠ P. Ms. 11. To that Life is prefixed this title: Here begins the Life of St. Dega Maccayrill. That he who wrote it was not contemporary with the Saint is gathered from these words of that biographer among us in chapter 1 at the end: Upon whom he laid such a penance that, leaving their country, they should dwell, never to return, in a certain southern region of Ireland which is called Beyri; which region TO THIS DAY their descendants inhabit. And chapter 2: To this day, in commemoration of the miracle which is there narrated, it is called the Pool of Berach. Moreover the author of this Life seems to have something of the Irish genius, to which it is wont to be exceedingly familiar to walk among wonders — among things, I say, prodigious beyond belief, not to say portentous. Consult what I said in volume II of July, at the V day of that month, in the Preliminary Commentary on St. Modwenna or Monenna, §2, numbers 18 and 19; likewise at the VI day of the same month concerning St. Darerca or Monynna, page 290; and besides, at that day see the Annotations to the Life of St. Modwenna, which is given on page 297 and following. To these may be added what will be said in the Preliminary Commentary to the Life of St. Mochta, which will be given on the XIX day of this month, §2.
[10] Meanwhile from the present Life is confirmed that prophecy of St. Mochta in our biographer, foretold concerning St. Dagæus's hand: our observations are prefixed. This hand also shall give me communion when I am about to die, and shall offer to my mouth the body and blood of Christ when I depart from this world. For in the Life of St. Mochta this is related: Blessed Mochta, therefore, when the day drew near which he was watchfully awaiting, received the saving viaticum from St. Daygæus. Add the testimony of Dagæus concerning his monastery, expressed in these words in the same Life of St. Mochta: Of his disciples the blessed pontiff Daygæus bears such testimony, preaching to the brethren of Bangor: "I give thanks," he says, "to my God, that I see you like to the last company of St. Mochta. For he had three kinds of monks succeeding one another: the first angelic in purity; the second apostolic in deeds; the third ready, like the holy Martyrs, to pour out their blood for Christ." Finally, since an age so long, beyond the common span of men's living and beyond common sense, seems to us to be extended by the author of our Life, who asserts that the Saint fell happily asleep in the hundred and fortieth year of his age, let it be permitted us to desire a greater confirmation of the same before we support our biographer in this matter. Consult what we shall relate on the XIX day of this month in the Preliminary Commentary to the Life of St. Mochta, §2, concerning the portentous age which is attributed to him; and to these you may add what was said in volume II of March, at the XVII day, in the Preliminary Commentary to the Acts of St. Patrick, §6, page 524, concerning the Irish writers who universally attribute 120 or 122 years of life to that Saint. Go also to what was observed after the Acts of St. Patrick, page 580, where the corrected division of Patrick's age was treated. From this specimen, therefore, which I have now exhibited concerning those Saints, it abundantly appears that it is not foreign to the genius of Irish writers to prolong their Saints to an age so very long that, unless it be established from elsewhere by lawful authority, it may deservedly seem suspect. There follow the Acts of our Saint.
Annotata. Read ullum*.
LIFE
By an anonymous author.
From the ancient parchment manuscript codex of Salamanca which we have, from page 212.
Dega Maccayrill, bishop and confessor, in Ireland (St.)
BHL Number: 2119
FROM A MANUSCRIPT.
CHAPTER I.
The Saint's birth; prophecies uttered concerning him; various things nobly done by him.
The venerable man and holy bishop Daygæus was born in the region of the Cianachta, The Saint's country, parents, and instruction in letters who dwell in the land of Bregia a, in a place which is called Insull. And his father was called Cayrellus, son of Doron; his mother, Dechidu, daughter of Massanus. Now Lassrian b, the renowned abbot of the monastery of Damin, who at that time was staying in the aforesaid region, baptized him in a certain little monastery of his own: and after he had come to boyhood, he was brought by his parents to the same Lassrian, that he might learn from him the knowledge of letters. And the abbot commended him to his own brother, a deacon, to be taught, by whom the boy was diligently instructed in the liberal studies. On a certain day the same deacon went with the same Daygæus to the monastery of Lubgud c, that he might speak with Mochta d the pontiff, a venerable old man, concerning certain profitable matters. But after he had come to the guest house, leaving the Boy alone, he meanwhile visited the holy old man.
[2] Then a wonderful thing happened: for straightway, while Mochta and the deacon were conversing together, a wondrous appearance the house in which the Boy had been left alone seemed to be burning with a great fire; but when the monks hastened to put out the fire, they found the house itself and the Boy remaining in it unharmed, without any injury from the fire: after this they return to the holy bishop, and relate before him the great miracle.
[3] Then Mochta said with a prophetic spirit: "With the fire of the Holy Spirit that Boy shall greatly burn, explained by St. Mochta. and therefore not undeservedly shall he be called Dayg; for this name in the Irish tongue means a great flame." Then the man of God ordered the holy Boy to be brought to him, and at his coming rejoiced with great joy, and taking his hand said: "This is the physician of whom I long ago foresaw in the spirit that he should cure me of my three infirmities." For Mochta labored under exceeding pain of the head, of the heart, and of the kidneys; but placing the boy's hand upon the aching members, he was straightway healed. After this, blessing that same hand, he said: "Very many utensils of iron and bronze, of gold and silver, belonging to the use of the church shall this hand skillfully make: and moreover it shall write very many volumes most excellently. This hand also shall give me communion when I am about to die, and shall offer to my mouth the body and blood of Christ when I depart from this world. It shall also make a casket in which to lay up my relics: and whatever else of such things shall be useful, this same hand shall make"; all which was afterwards fulfilled. For the same Daygæus, for the love of God and the honor of the Saints, without any earthly price, ingeniously and wonderfully made for the bishops, abbots, and other Saints of Ireland bells, cymbals, staves, crosses, shrines, caskets, pyxes, chalices, patens, little altars, chrismatories, and covers for books — some of these plain, but others overlaid with gold and silver and precious gems.
[4] These things being said, the Deacon asks the man of God, full of a prophetic spirit e, saying: who said that he would not be under him, but under another. "What dost thou see concerning this Boy's future?" Mochta answered: "Between me and the mountain toward the north he shall found a fair monastery." The Deacon said: "Holy Father, shall that monastery be under thee?" He answered: "No: for on the past night I saw in heaven that this Boy was delivered by God into the hands of a certain youth who is to be born into this world some years hence." And the holy youth to whom Daygæus was delivered by God is said to be Kieran, abbot of Clonmacnoise f.
[5] After this the same Deacon went with the boy Daygæus to the monastery of Damin, The Saint foretells concerning the monastery of Lassrian, of which the aforesaid Lassrian, that is, the Deacon's brother, was the renowned abbot and founder. And to this monastery there adjoins a certain secluded little monastery which is called the school, in which Daygæus fully learned the knowledge of letters, the art of writing, and the smith's craft. And while he was remaining there, it was enjoined upon him by the abbot Lassrian on a certain night that, while the other brethren slept, he should keep watch and guard the little monastery. But he acted wonderfully: for in the place where he ought to have watched, he set his cape hanging upon a piece of wood in his stead. But almighty God guarded that place that night without any harm. And on the following day the abbot, learning what had been done, greatly rebuked him. Then Daygæus with a prophetic spirit
said that that little monastery would by no means be without some harm.
[6] and he goes to St. Comgall, After this, having received leave from the abbot, he went away to the holy Comgall, abbot of the monastery of Bangor g, that there, being instructed in monastic disciplines, he might most devoutly serve God under the yoke of the rule laid upon him by the abbot; where by day he read and practiced the smith's craft; but by night, save that he indulged in sleep for a moderate space, he wrote unwearyingly. He wrought there with his own hands very many utensils for the use of the monastery. Three cymbals also he made for holy Comgall, which to this day are held in great esteem: he also at last wrote a most excellent Gospel-book, and wonderfully constructed there a repository in which to lay it up.
[7] thence at last to St. Kieran But when not a few years had been passed in the monastery of holy Comgall, blessed Daygæus, urged by the divine will, with prayer and blessing went to the man of God to whom he himself with his successors had been delivered by God — the holy Kieran, abbot of Clonmacnoise. To whom it was shown beforehand by God that holy guests were coming to his monastery. And therefore, when Mass was ended, he went out in haste beyond the monastery to meet them. But Daygæus, coming to Kieran, carried alone behind his companions the books and garments of his companions. Seeing this, Kieran said: "I marvel that I see the grace of the Holy Spirit coming to us not before the clerics but behind them." But when Daygæus came to him and cast himself upon the ground beneath his feet, he gladly accepted his humility and submission. And it is related that from the time when holy Daygæus departed from holy Comgall until he came to holy Kieran he tasted nothing of food or drink: for he said, "How can a body without a head take food?"
[8] Then, returning at holy Kieran's bidding into his own country, he founded there the monastery which is named Inyscam. sent by whom, he founds a monastery, his brothers being unwilling; Holy Columba h also was there at that time, and blessed the place and the monastery together with him, and said: "Many souls shall pass from this holy place to the heavenly kingdoms." But the fleshly brothers of holy Daygæus, kindled with the torches of envy because he had built a monastery there, tried to kill him. Wherefore a certain one of his disciples, namely Naindeich, son of Mayne, putting on his cape and ready to die in his stead, awaited their onset undismayed: and they, striking him mightily with spears, inflicted no injury upon him; for the spear rebounded from his cape as from a rock. And the Man of God, unwilling to render evil for evil, bade Naindeich not to curse them; but they, straightway pricked with repentance, bending their knees to the ground before holy Daygæus, asked for pardon. Upon whom he laid such a penance that, leaving their country, they should dwell, never to return, in a certain southern region of Ireland which is called Beyri; which region to this day their descendants inhabit.
ANNOTATIONS.
CHAPTER II.
Very many miracles of the Saint, other notable works, and his happy death.
On a certain day, when blessed Daygæus was in a certain little monastery of his own which is called Delenna, also another, where he raises one drowned, with a prediction. a certain woman, entering his mill to grind her grain, was wounded by a certain man; whom Berach a, the disciple of blessed Daygæus, sent by him to her, at once healed. She then, returning home, asked her household where her son might be, whom she had before left there but at that time did not find; and they said: "He went after thee to the mill." Hearing which, that wretched woman, having diligently sought the boy and not found him, conjecturing that he had been drowned in the stream which flows past the aforesaid mill, ran in haste, weeping piteously, to the Man of God; who sent the same disciple with her to the stream. And he, having made prayer, calling back the boy who had before been drowned from the depth of the river, gave him to his mother alive and unharmed; moreover firmly promising this, that thereafter no one should be drowned in that same part of the river: which to this day, in commemoration of the miracle, is called the Pool of Berach.
[10] He raises a virgin; he makes a little altar for another. The same Man of God, in the monastery of holy Finnian b which is called Clonard, in the presence of the holy abbot Ruadan c, kindled by blowing upon it a candle that had by chance gone out. In the monastery also of the holy virgins, the daughters of Fintan d, he restored to life a certain virgin who had died on the night of his coming. Wherefore the virgins delivered their monastery to his successors, under his lordship. Holy Cayrellus e, abbot of the monastery which is named Metheus, asked the same Man of God to make him a little altar; and when he excused himself that he had not the material for it, a weight of gold is said to have fallen from heaven into his lap, out of which he made him the little altar. But he sold the relics of it for a field which is called the Land of Gold. Whence holy Cayrellus gave himself and his place to his subjection.
[11] He raises one slain, and three others. At that time, while blessed Daygæus was staying there, being moved by the request of a certain woman, he sought her only son from the king of the people who are called Crimthann f, by whom he was held in chains. But that impious king, not yielding to the prayers of the Man of God, but rather stirred to anger, cruelly slew the son of the aforesaid woman. But him whom the impiety of the unhappy king slew, the sanctity of blessed Daygæus raised again; and he deprived that king and his descendants of the kingdom for ever. And when he had departed thence, finding on the road by which he went three daughters of a certain man named Columba lately dead, he raised them from the dead; and afterwards, teaching them the knowledge of letters, he founded a monastery for their use, which is called the House of the Daughters of Columba.
[12] He founds several monasteries for Virgins. After this, when the sanctity of blessed Daygæus was published abroad through all Ireland, holy virgins flowed together to him from every side, that they might live under his rule — one Cumena, another Lassara g, the sister of holy Daygæus, another Dulvina. Hearing this, the abbot of Clonmacnoise, named Oenu, sent to blessed Daygæus to rebuke him for receiving virgins. But he, foreknowing the business of the messengers, commanded the nuns to serve them humbly: of whom one carried fire in her bosom without any injury to her garment, and another water, as though in a most solid vessel, to them. Which the guests seeing, they did penance. And blessed Daygæus, leading those nuns toward the North, built for them in divers places, as was fitting, divers monasteries in which with other virgins they might serve God apart.
[13] He raises one dead man and another. Then he and the holy virgin Cunne, going into the region which is called the land of Eda, raised the son of the king of that region, who had been drowned in the mouth of the river which flows past that land, in which an innumerable multitude of fish is taken. Wherefore that king offered to them and to their successors a field and a place at the aforesaid mouth for the taking of fish. After this, going to the land of the Luigne h within the borders of Connacht, he was reverently received in the monastery of the sons of Flescach and of the holy virgin Riteilla, where, at the time of refection, no cup being found, a golden one was given him from heaven, which he afterwards expended for a field for the profit of the brethren. Thence he passed into the borders of the descendants of Ailill, and there restored to life Diarmit, the son of the king of that land, named Cathbot, who was dead: whom he afterwards, imbuing him with liberal studies, founded a monastery for.
[14] Nor must this be kept silent, which God wrought for the disciples of the holy Man [Milk is miraculously carried; water is turned into wine; a thief is converted; a dead man is raised.] who was staying in his name in the monastery of Cruymtersit: for they carried a vessel full of milk without a bottom to the monastery of Bocetum or Vaccarium; for certain robbers had wickedly taken away the bottom of that vessel from them upon the road. Thereafter he founded a monastery in the regions of the Corpri, where, having no ale for the need of certain venerable guests, he first turned water into wine, God working with him. On a time he preached the word of God to a certain thief who had stolen horses, who, being led to repentance and having sent back the horses to their owners, was taken by the holy Man to the clerical habit. And that same Sectanus, from whom the monastery is named the House of Sectanus, coming thereafter to the monastery of holy Cayrlan i,
raised him, when he had died on that same night. Wherefore he subjected himself and his monastery to him.
[15] In the plain of the Conaille also k he healed a certain man sick of the dropsy, A dropsy is healed, a strait is crossed on foot, etc. Celtchar by name; who offered his field to him and to his successors. On a time he crossed with dry feet the strait which is called the Lake of Rudus, no ship being found. After this, when he was passing through the region of Mydluaca, a certain beam of immense size which, lying across the road, denied passage to travelers, was through his prayer lifted away by angelic ministry.
Holy Lonocus asked that a little altar should be made for him by him; and having no material at hand from which to make it, he said with a prophetic spirit: "In the grave of the man who shall first be buried in thy cemetery thou shalt find a mass of orichalc, from which I shall make thee a little altar." Which also was so fulfilled. For the same holy man he also wrote a Gospel-book.
[16] After this he went to the monastery of his disciple holy Diarmit: He raises three women who had been slain; and on that night, while the morning office was being celebrated, they beheld three shining stars ascending to the heavens from that place which is called the Great Land. Diarmit said: "What is this wonderful vision?" Blessed Daygæus said: "Three pure souls have now ascended to the heavenly kingdoms." Then, coming to that place, he restored to life the three daughters of Erclay, who had been slain by robbers while they were going to the holy virgin Daretha, that under her yoke they might serve God.
[17] How many and how great miracles blessed Daygæus wrought by the cooperation of divine grace, [and, many other things being nobly accomplished, he dies in the 140th year of his age.] the capacity of human memory cannot comprehend. And so, very many monasteries having been founded throughout Ireland, the dead restored to life, divers sicknesses cured, the bound set free, captives redeemed, useful things made for the Church of God by the labor of his own hands, and the days of his life passed blamelessly, in the hundred and fortieth year of his age l he happily fell asleep in Christ; who with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, God, for ever and ever. Amen.