ned for
some days with Saint Senanus, they passing the time in the divine
mysteries; and they made a pact and a brotherhood between them, and
thereafter Saint Kiaranus with the kiss of peace went his way.

XXXV. CIARAN IN ISEL

24. Now when blessed Kiaranus came from Saint Senanus, he went out to
his brethren Luchennus and Odranus, who were living in a _cella_ which
is called Yseal, that is "the lowest place"; and he lived with them
for a time. And his brethren made Saint Kiaranus their almoner and
guest-master: but Luchennus, who was the eldest, was the abbot of
that place, and Odranus was the prior. Once, when Saint Kiaranus was
reading out of doors in a field facing the sun, he suddenly espied
weary guests entering the guest-house; and rising quickly, he forgot
his book, and left it out of doors open till the following day. As he
himself was settling the guests in the house, washing their feet and
diligently ministering to them, the night fell. In that very night
there was a great rain, but by the favour of God the open book was
found perfectly dry; for not a drop of rain had touched it, although
the whole ground was wet around it. For this did Saint Kiaranus with
his brethren render praises to Christ.

XXXVI. THE REMOVAL OF THE LAKE

25. Near that place of Saint Kiaranus there was an island in a
lake, on which a certain lord was dwelling in his fortress with his
followers; and the noise of their uproar was hindering the prayers of
the holy men in their _cella_. When Saint Kyeranus saw this, he went
out to the shore of the lake, and prayed there to the Lord, that He
would give them somewhat of relief from that island. On the following
night that island, with its lake, was removed by the divine power, far
away to another place, where the noise of the mob of that island could
not reach the saints of God. And unto this day there is to be seen the
place of the lake, where it had been before, some of it sandy, some of
it marshy, as a sign of the act of power.

XXXVII. CIARAN DEPARTS FROM ISEL

26. On a certain day when Ciaran was busied out of doors in a field, a
poor man came to him, asking that an alms should be given him. In
that hour a chariot with two horses was gifted to Saint Kiaranus by
a certain lord, namely the son of Crimthannus; which horses with the
chariot Saint Kiaranus gave to that poor man.

Then, since the brethren of Saint Kiaranus could not endure the
greatness of his charity, for every