aid Ciaran.
Then did Findian give his blessing fervently to Ciaran; _ut dixit_
Findian--

Ciaran my little heart,
whom for holiness I love,
Princely lands shall be thy part,
favour, dearest, from above.

Ciaran, famous all around!
wealth and wisdom on thee pour!
So may, in thy Church renowned,
knowledge grow yet more and more.

Now this blessing was given fervently to Ciaran through his great
love and spiritual exaltation.[25] So that there he left half of the
charity, and the nobility, and the wisdom, among the men of Ireland to
Ciaran and his monastery. Moreover Ciaran left wealth to him and to
his monastery, so that thence is the wealth of Findian.

That corn sufficed for the congregation of Findian for forty days with
their nights; and a third part of it was stored up for sick folk,
for it would heal every malady, and neither mouse nor worm dared to
destroy it. [It endured a long time][26] until it turned at last to
clay. And every disease for which it was given would be healed.

XXV. THE STORY OF CLUAIN

19. One day when Ciaran was collecting a band of reapers, there met
him a youth named Cluain. "Help us at the reaping to-morrow," said
Ciaran. "I will," said Cluain. But when Cluain went home he said to
his folk, "Should one come from Ciaran for me," said he, "say that I
am sick." When this was told to the lad who went to summon Cluain,
he reported it to Ciaran. When Ciaran heard it he laughed, and he
understood that Cluain was practising deception, for he was a prophet
of God in truth. Now when the folk of Cluain went to awake him, thus
they found him, without life. Sorely did his folk bewail him, and
there came the people of the neighbourhood to ask them the cause of
their weeping. "Cluain," said they, "went to his bed in health, and
now he is dead; and Ciaran hath slain him with his word, for that he
went not to reap for him." All those people go to Ciaran to intercede
with him for the raising again of the dead: "we shall all," said they,
"reap for thee, and we shall give our labour and our service to thee
and to God for ever, if thou raise the dead for us." Then said Ciaran
to his servant: "Rise," said he, "and take my staff with thee to the
dead, and make the sign of the cross with the staff on his breast, and
speak this quatrain--

Cluain did say
He would reap with me today;
Living, by a dread disease,
Dead within his house he lay."

Then Cluain arose forth