CLXXVIII The Soul of a Certain Sinner is by Saint Patrick
freed from Demons.
CLXXIX How the Saint appeared unto Colmanus while singing
his Hymn.
CLXXX The Admirable Contemplations of the Saint.
CLXXXI Saint Patrick beholdeth the Souls of the Rich and
of the poor Man sent unto different Places.
CLXXXII Saint Vinvaloeus is miraculously stayed by Saint
Patrick from his purposed Journey.
CLXXXIII The Daily Prayers and Genuflexions of the Saint.
CLXXXIV How he passed the Night Season.
CLXXXV The Habit, the Bearing, and the Acts of Saint Patrick.
CLXXXVI Of the Sick whom he healed, and the Dead whom he
raised; and of his Disciples who recorded his Acts.
CLXXXVII The Angelic Voice showeth unto Saint Patrick of his
Death and of the Place of his Burial.
CLXXXVIII The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light
from Heaven.
CLXXXIX Saint Brigida bringeth unto Saint Patrick the Garment
which was to enshroud his Body.
CXC The Death of Saint Patrick.
CXCI The Number of the Years of his Life.
CXCII The Funeral Honors which Men and Angels paid unto
the Body of the Saint.
CXCIII The Light continueth for Twelve Days.
CXCIV The Miraculous Rising of the Sea between
the Contending People.
CXCV Two Wains appear, the which are sent by a Miracle.
CXCVI The Sepulture of Saint Patrick in the City of Dunum.

A Chronological Table to the Lives of St. Patrick

ILLUSTRATIONS

Images of Saint Columba, Saint Patrick, and Saint Brigida,
Taken from the Spicilegium Sanctorum, and engraven at Paris,
A.D. 1629, by Messingham. . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The Saint Patrick of Ancient Ages

The Saint Patrick of Medieval Times

The Saint Patrick of Our Own Century

PREFACE.

The present volume has three objects in view: first, to present the
life of Saint Patrick without writing a history of the national church
which he founded or introducing irrelevant matter; secondly, to place
his life and character before the reader as they have been handed down
to us in the most ancient extant documents, without overcoating or
withholding anything in the originals; and, thirdly, to deliver to the
public at as low a price as possible the original documents grouped
together.

At first I had intended to present the Seven Lives of