ened the gates of heaven then and sent to him a host
of angels, in glory and majesty unspeakable. When Mochuda saw the
heavens open above him and the angel band approaching, he ordered that
he be set down in the middle of the glen and he related to the seniors
the things that he had seen and he asked to receive the Body of Christ
and he gave his last instruction to the monks--to observe the Law of God
and keep His commands. The place was by the cross called "Crux
Migrationis," or the cross from which Mochuda departed to Glory. Having
received the Body and Blood of Christ, having taught them divine
doctrines, in the midst of holy choirs and of many brethren and monks to
whom in turn he gave his blessing and the kiss of peace according to the
rule, the glorious and holy bishop departed to heaven accompanied by
hosts of angels on the day before the Ides of May [May 14], in his union
with the Holy Trinity--Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Finit 7ber [September] 4th, 1741.

NOTE 1

One of our scribe's predecessors omitted a word or two from the text
here, with disastrous results to the sense. The Latin Life comes to our
aid however and enables us to make good the omission; the latter, by
the way, puzzles our scribe who is like a man fighting an invisible
enemy--correcting a text of which he does not know the defect. Insertion
of the words "walking backwards" immediately after "church," in the
angel's answer, will enable us to see the original writer's meaning. The
text should probably read:

The angel answered:--"Whom you shall see going from the church walking
backwards to the guest-house" (for it was Mochuda's custom to walk
backwards from the door of the church). Comghall announced to his
household that there was coming to them a distinguished stranger,
well-beloved of God, of whose advent an angel had twice foretold him.
Some time later Mochuda arrived at Comghall's establishment, and he went
to the monastery first and he did just as the angel foretold of him and
Comghall recognised him and bade him welcome.

NOTE 2

The obits of Mochuda's successors, down to Christian O'Conarchy,
are chronicled as follows:--

A.D. 650. Cuanan, maternal uncle and immediate successor of
Mochuda (Lanigan).
A.D. 698. Iarnla, surnamed Hierologus (Four Masters). In his
time King Alfrid was a student in Lismore.
A.D. 702. Colman, son of Finnbhar (Acta Sanctorum). During his
reign the abbey