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A04498	The life of the glorious bishop S. Patricke apostle and primate of Ireland Togeather with the lives of the holy virgin S. Bridgit and of the glorious abbot Saint Columbe patrons of Ireland.	Jocelin, fl. 1200.; Rochford, Robert.; Cogitosus, Saint. Vitae Sanctae Brigidae virginis. aut; Capgrave, John, 1393-1464. Lyfe of Seynt Birgette.; Adamnan, Saint, 625?-704. Vita S. Columbae. English & Latin.	1625 (1625)	STC 14626; ESTC S106779	103,762	256

him did he restore mē to their perfect health A woman that had an inflammation in her eye vsed a Petrasalis which the Saint had blessed It fell out after some dayes that the house wherein the Petrasalis was tooke fire al the house was cōsumed into ashes excepting the pearch wheron the Petrasalis hung and a part of the wall that sustayned it A yong man that carryed about him a leafe written by S. Columbes holy hand was drowned in a riuer his body after twenty dayes being extracted out of the waters the leafe was found as drye and vncorrupted as if it had beene lockt vp close in a casket 3. As the Saint was one time trauailing the parents of a young infant brought the child to the Saint to be christned and in regard no water could be found in the adioyning places the saint declined to a rocke hardby where after praying a little vpon his knees he blessed the rocke out of which gushed a streame of water wherin he baptized the young suckling of whome also he prophecyed that in his youth he would loose the raines to lust and sensuality but afterwardes that he should giue himselfe to the study of christian perfection and should dye in a good ould age All which fell out to be true The Saint being in Pictland he heard great report of a pagan fountaine which the foolish people being blinded by the Diuell held in great veneration but whosoeuer tasted of the water or washed their handes or feet in it became by diabolicall fascination God permitting it blind leaprous or weake with some infirmity The saint came to the fountaine wherat the Magitians whome he often confounded and ouercame were very glad hoping that he should receaue some mischance The saint first inuocating vpon the name of Christ washed his handes feet and after blessing the water drunke of it which from that day forwardes bred no hurt or annoy to any and which is more admirable by vertue of the Saints benediction the water of that fountaine became a soueraigne remedy for the cure of many diseases How S. Columbe did with his prayers allaye tempest And how S. Cahinnechus did the same and of other miracles wrought by S. Columbe CHAP. III. VPON a certaine tyme the Saint was in danger at sea for the ship was soare shaken with huge waues the raging violence of the blustering windes beating vpon it the Saint in that distresse helped them what he could in pumping out the water whereupon the marriners sayd What you do now auailes vs but litle in this extremity it is more fitting for you to pray for vs being ready almost to be cast away With that the Saint began to power out before God a sweet and feruent prayer O great wonder No sooner did the Saint standing in the foredecke of the ship addresse his handes in prayer to the Omnipotēt but that the tempest of the ayre and boyling of the sea ceased whereupon followed a most serene and pleasant calme they who were in the shippe being strucken with admiration glorifyed God in his blessed seruant 2. Another tyme the Saint being in great danger by occasion of a fearefull and vehement tempest his companions cryed to him to pray for them but he made answere That belongeth not to me to doe for it is the holy Abbot Cahinnechus turne to pray for you this day Cahinnechus being then in his own monastery called Cowfield heard the foresayd speach of S. Columbe by reuelation of the holy Ghost for when he had begun after the ninth houre to sit downe to dinner he arose quickly from the table and hauing one shooe on leauing the other for hast he ranne to the Church saying all the way It is not tyme for vs now to dine when S. Columbs ship is in imminent danger at sea who calleth often vpon the name of Cahinnechus desiring him to pray for him and his companions hauing spoken these words Cahinnechus entred the oratory and prayed a little vpon his knees and loe our Lord heard incontinently his prayer for the tempest ceased and the sea became calme S. Columbe seeing in spirit S. Cahinnechus his preparation and promptnes in running to the Church he pronounced out of his pure breast this marueilous saying Now I know O Cahinnechus that God hath heard your prayer for your hasty running to the church with one of your shoes only auayles vs much 3. Bathaneus and other holy men came to the Saint entreating him to obtayne the next day from God a prosperous wind for them being to passe to contrary places The Saint answered Bathaneus shal haue in the morning a prosperous wind vntill he arriue at the hauen of Lungefield which God granted him according to the Saints wordes Then at nine of the clocke the Saint sent for Columbanus the Priest bidding him to make himselfe ready and telling him that the south wind that fauoured Bathaneus should turn to the north so Columbanus ēbarked himselfe for Ireland This stupendious miracle was wrought by vertue of the saints prayers because as it is written All things are possible to him that beleeueth After Columbanus his departure S. Columbe pronounced this prophecy of him The holy man Columbanus shall neuer more see me in this life So it fell out for S. Columbe departed to our Lord the selfe same yeare 4. A certaine young man named Columbanus brought a vessell full of milke to the place where the saint was requesting him to blesse it as he was accustomed As the Saint made the victorious signe of the Crosse in the ayre the vessell began to shake the couer fell to the ground the most part of the milke was shed the youth layd downe the vessell with the little milke that was left vpon the ground fell humbly on his knees to whome the Saint sayd Rise vp Columban for you haue been negligent in performing of your duty this day because you did not chase away with the signe of the crosse the Diuell that lurcked in the bottome of the empty vessell before you powred in the milke the vertue of which sacred signe he being vnable to sustaine he is now fled away Then the Saint blessed the little milke that was left and loe the vessell that was almost empty vnder the benediction of his sacred hand became brimfull How by vertue of S. Columbes benediction fiue Cowes increased to the number of 105. How the Saint foresaw the death damnation of a certaine man and of other no lesse remarkeable miracles CHAP. IIII. THe Saint hauing lodged one night at the house of one Columbanus a very poore and dy man in the morning he questioned with him concerning the quantity and quality of his substance The poore man answered I haue fiue Cowes which if you vouchsafe to blesse I doubt not but they will increase to a greater number The saint commanded him to bring them to his presence where blessing them he sayd You shal by Gods grace haue a

Martin Archbishop of Tours in France This holy couple liued togeather in great sanctity and perfectiō being iust before God and walking in his iustifications and commandements without blame In processe of tyme it pleased God to blesse them with a holy and happy issue whome they named Patricke who was no sooner regenerated in the lauer of holy Baptisme but God began to denounce to the world his admirable sanctity by the voyce of stupendious miracles in māner following 2. A certaine man strucken with blindnes from his mothers wombe named Gormas heard in his sleep a voyce commanding him with the right hād of the child Patrick newly christened to make the signe of the Crosse on the ground which voice added further that thereupon would gush out a vaine of liuing water wherewith if he washed his eyes he should recouer his sight The man obeyed the diuine oracle found the vertue of Siloe rieterated in that miraculous fountaine Nay which is more prodigious at the same tyme his spirituall eyes were opened being illustrated with the guift of infused knowledged so that of an ingorant blind man he became a learned Reader and vnderstander of holy Scriptures 3. The holy child Patricke encreasing in yeares grew likewise in grace and as a shop full fraught with sweet perfumes breathed forth the fragrant odours of astonishing miracles In Emptor Towne where the holy child and his sister Lupita were brought vppe vnder the care of an Aunt of theirs after the dissoluing of the frost a certaine sinke or Va●te did so swell vp with waters that it threatned the destruction of many houses and particulerly the inundation did ouerwhelme the house wherein the holy child liued so that al the houshold stuffe was ouerflowen the Blessed child being hungry called to his Nurce for bread Who answered that he was neerer drowning then getting any thing to eate With that the holy child dipped his fingers in the swelling waters and sprinckling them thrice ouer the same with the signe of the holy Crosse commanded the sinke in the name of the most holy Trinity to retyre It was a wounder to see the inundation ceased the sinke or Vault became sodainly dry For from his sacred fingers it seemed to thē that stood by in lieu of droppes of water sparckles of fire to issue forth which dryed vp those swelling waters 4. On a certaine day in the winter tyme the holy child being among a company of his play-fellowes gathered vp in his lap some pieces of Ice and carrying them home layd them on the floor To whome his Nurce sayd that it had beene better and much more fitting for the season to haue brought home wood for the fire then so to play the wanton with the peeces of Ice The sweet child answered wisely saying It is easy for the Author of nature to dispense with the course of nature aud to make euen this frozen water seruiceable for the vse of fire Then he layd the peeces together and after praying and making the signe of the Crosse vpon them he blew them with that they tooke fire which cast out such flammes and heat as yeelded forth not only the benefit of warmeth but also ministred great matter of admiratiō to all that saw it which what els could the same foreshew but that this great Saint shold inflame the cold and frozen hartes of many and with the word of God breathed from his sacred soule inflame them in the loue of so potent a Lord 5. One tyme as Lupita S. Patrickes sister went to weane the lambes from their Dames she fell and in falling burst her head against a sharp edged Flint that wounded her cruelly many ran to see that great mischance and among them the Blessed child Patricke who by making the signe of the crosse on her forehead restored her to perfect health In like manner did the Blessed child reuine his Vncle who dyed of suddayne death by making the signe of the Crosse vpon him and offering his deuout prayers for him S. Patricke was by his Aunt deputed to the charge of keeping sheep One day as he ledd them out to their pasture there rushed out of a wood hard by a famished wolfe who carryed away one of the sheep his Aunt missing the sheep imputed the losse of it to the Saints negligēce in performing his charge he supported patiently her vndeserued check prayed to God earnestly for the bringing back of the lost sheep Behould the next morning the Woolfe came carying the sheep in his mouth layd the same before the Saint and so went his way The holy childs Nurce in her sickenes longed much for hony but none being to be gotten she fell a greeuing and lamenting the holy child blessing a cup of cold water conuerted it into hony and gaue it to his Nurce wherewith she satisfyed her longing and recouered her health perfectly 6. A noble man that liued in Emptor-Towne forced S. Patrickes Aunt to vndergo the heauy yoake of seruitude giuing her in charge to cleanse or empty euery day the dirt and filth of a great stable or Ox-stall where many Oxen and Horses were stabled The vertuous woman supporred with great meeknes this affliction as comming from the hand of God But S. Patricke offering his prayers to God for his Aunt all the roomes were made cleane so continued for a long time without any human help which great miracle exciting all men to admiration was the cause that the woman was set at liberty and the Saint held in great veneration 7. The admirable progresse the holy childe made in the course of vertue went farre beyond the number of his yeares for his tender breast abounded with plenty of diuine gifts that pure receptacle was enriched and stored with all vertues so that in the slippery course of youth he slidd not into any lapse that might ly as a stayne on the spottles robe of his chastity such was his care in keeping the integrity both of soule and body vnblemished And albeit the inward motiō of grace did instruct and direct him in all his actions yet when he came to competent yeares his parents tooke care for his trayning vp in learning The child plyed his booke very diligently particularly he gaue himselfe to learne Psalmes Hymnes and spiritual Canticles which he got by hart for euē from the prime of his youth he was wont euery day to say the whole Psalter His tender body he chastised with fastings watchinges and other exercises of devotion exhibiting it a liuely host holy and pleasing to God representing in his mortall body the life of an Angel without a body Of S. Patricks being carryed into Ireland and of his captiuity and release from the yoke of seruitude CHAP. II. FIER tryeth gold and the furnace of tribulation the iust to the end that S. Patricks vertues should becom more illustrious his crown of blisse more glorious he was exposed to the assaults of tentation For some Pirates