us, seeking not his own, but the things of
Jesus Christ, said, "Here," said he, "dwell thou, and I with God's
guidance shall seek a place of habitation elsewhere." Finally, the
sacred community accompanying him, he made his way to the place
foreshown him of God, in which, when the famous and renowned monastery
which is to-day called the city of Cluayn was built, he himself
illuminated the world, like the sun, with the light of famous
miracles.

XLIV. CIARAN AND THE WINE

18. Of the multitude of these miracles we add some here. One time,
when the brethren, labouring in the harvest, were oppressed with
peril of thirst, they sent to holy Father Queranus that they might be
refreshed by the blessing of water. To these, through the servants, he
said: "Choose ye," said he, "one of two things; either that ye be now
revived with water, or that those who are to inhabit this place after
you be blessed with the things of this world." But they answering
said: "We choose," said they, "that those who come after us may abound
in temporal goods, and that we may have the reward of long-suffering
in heaven." And so, rejoicing in the hope of the things to come, they
abstained from drinking, though they were in great need of it.

But in the evening when they were returning home, the tender father,
having compassion on the weariness of the labourers, blessed a vessel
filled with water: and now renewing the holy miracle in Cana of
Galilee, he changed the water into the best wine. By this wine they,
fainting from thirst, were revived; and revived in faith by the
manifestation of an unwonted miracle, they gave praises to God
Almighty. For the taste of this miraculous wine was more grateful than
was wont, and its odour scented the thumb of the wine-drawer so long
as he survived.

XLVI. HOW AN INSULT TO CIARAN WAS AVERTED

19. One day when he was going on a way, most infamous robbers,
seizing him, began to shave the head of the blessed man. But what the
frowardness of man wished to efface, the divine benevolence changed to
the manifestation of a mighty miracle. For in the place of the
shaved hairs other hairs grew forthwith. The robbers, thrown into
consternation by this miracle, were changed to the way of truth, and
at length, serving in the divine army under so great a leader, they
finished their life in holy conversation.

XLVII. HOW CIARAN WAS SAVED FROM SHAME

20. At another time when the good shepherd was feeding his flocks,