spirit how useful this would be against
future perils of the sea. For in the part of the sea which bears
towards the monastery of I, there is a very great danger to those who
cross, partly because of the vehemence of the currents, and partly
because of the narrowness of the sea; so that ships are whirled round
and driven in a circle, and thus are often sunk. For it is rightly
compared to Scylla and Charybdis; I mean that by its grave and
unmitigated dangerousness, evil is there the lot of sailors. When they
were coming to this strait, they suddenly began to glide into it in
their course: and when they looked for nothing but death, and because
they were as though apt to be devoured by the horrible jaws of the
abyss, then Saint Columba taking some of the aforesaid dust that had
been taken from the tomb of blessed Keranus, cast it into that sea.
Then there befell a thing marvellous and worthy of great wonder; for
sooner than it is told, that cruel storm ceased, and accorded them a
quiet passage. Truly do the just live for ever; among whom blessed
Queranus reigneth, the earth or dust of whose sepulchre stilled the
sea, established in the Faith the hearts of those who feared, and
strengthened them to good works. Wherefore blessed Keranus liveth not
only for God, to whom he is inseparably bound, but also for men, on
whom in time of need he bestoweth benefits.

A RIME ABOUT HIM

1. As the mother of Quiaranus sat in a noisy carriage, a wizard heard
the sound and said out to his attendant lads, "See ye who is in the
carriage, for it soundeth under a king." "The wife," say they, "of
Beodus the wright sitteth here." The wizard says: "She shall bear a
king acceptable to all, whose works shall shine like Phoebus in the
sky." The soldier of Christ, Keranus, a temple of the Holy Spirit,
flourished in the virtue of spiritual piety.

2. He bestowed the sucking calf of a cow on a hound; then his mother
severely upbraided Queranus. He asked the devoured calf from the hound
itself, and presently bearing back its bones he restored it.

3. The bald head of a royal woman had been made bare by the envy of an
evil concubine; when it was signed in the name of Queranus it shone
adorned with golden hair.

4. When Queranus was occupied with sacred studies, and asked time that
he might engage himself therein, then the mill is moved for him by
angels.

5. The gospel text had fallen into a lake, but when time passed, by
the merits of Queranu