ot be eaten of any.

XVI. THE BREAKING OF THE CARRIAGE-AXLE

10. At another time when with his father he was sitting in a carriage,
the axle of the carriage broke in two; but yet for the whole day they
continued their journey safely, without any mishap.

XVII. HOW CIARAN WENT WITH HIS COW TO THE SCHOOL OF FINDIAN

11. After these things, having heard the renown of the holiness and
sound doctrine of Saint Finnianus of Cluayn Hyrart, he desired to
hasten to him as to a living fountain, and asked of his mother a cow,
to yield him the food necessary to sustain life. When his mother
refused his request, he went to the kine of his mother, trusting in
his God, and blessed one of them in the name of God; and the cow, by
the favour of God, mindful of the blessing of the man of God, followed
him with her calf till he had arrived at the church of the man of God
Fynnianus. When the man of God arrived at the place of his desire, he
drew a dividing-line with his rod between the cow and the calf, in
the name of Him who set a boundary to the waters that they should not
transgress their limit, and this they did not cross till they were
permitted. The milk of that cow was sufficient for twelve men every
day.

XVIII. THE ANGELS GRIND FOR CIARAN

12. At that time there were twelve very holy and reverend men reading
in that school, and each of them on his day ground at the quern with
his own hand, as was customary. But in the day of Saint Keranus the
angels of God used to turn the quern for him.

XXX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ROBBERS OF LOCH ERNE

13. At another time, when blessed Keranus had been in an island
situated in Loch Eirne, in the school of a holy man; and it was a
custom with the saints that three men should go out with an elder to
bring in timber; it was the lot of Saint Keranus to go to the forest
with three monks to cut timber. And when he was praying apart and the
others were cutting wood, robbers came and slew those three monks, and
cut off and carried away their heads with them. Saint Keranus, not
hearing the sound of those who were hacking and hewing timber,
returned from the place of prayer and found his three companions slain
and decapitated. But the man of God, though first he grieved sorely
over this deed, yet, recovering his power from Him Who deserteth not
His own in their necessity, hastened after the murderers, and found
them sweating to drag a little boat down to the water. But it was
wondrously cont