hine like a sun in heaven,
and when judgment will be given regarding the fruit of his teaching, like
Peter or Paul. He will be afterwards in the union of the patriarchs and
prophets; in the union of the saints and virgins of the world; in the
union of the apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ; in the union of the
Church, both of heaven and earth; in the union of the nine orders of
heaven, which cannot be surpassed; in the union of the divinity and
humanity of the Son of God; in the union which excels every union--in the
union of the Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for
ever and ever. Amen. I beseech the mercy of God, through the
intercession of Patrick. May we all reach that union; may we deserve it;
may we inhabit it for ever and ever.

These are the four-and-twenty who were in orders with Patrick--viz.,
Sechnall, his bishop; Mochta, his priest; Bishop Ere, his brehon; Bishop
MacCairthen, his strong man; Benen, his psalmist; Caemhan of Cill-Ruada,
his youth; Sinell, from Cill-Daresis, his bell-ringer; Athgein of
Both-Domhnach, his cook; Cruimther Mescan, from Domhnach-Mescan at
Fochan, his brewer; Cruimther Bescna, from Domhnach-Dala, his
mass-priest; Cruimther Catan and Cruimther Ocan, his two waiters; Odhran,
from Disert-Odhran in Hy-Failghe, his charioteer; Cruimther Manach, his
wood-man; Rodan, his shepherd; his three smiths, MacCecht, Laeban from
Domhnach-Laebhan (who made the Findfaithnech), and Fortchern in
Rath-Adine. Essa and Bite and Tassach were his three artists. His three
embroiderers were Lupait, and Ere, daughter of Daire, and Cruimthiris in
Cenn-Gobha. And this is the number that were in the company of Joseph;
and it is the number that is allowed at the table of the King of Cashel,
down from the time of Fedhlimidh, son of Crimthann--_i.e._, the king of
the two provinces of Munster, etc.

The Annals of the Lord Jesus Christ, the year this Life of St. Patrick
was written, 1477; and to-morrow will be Lammas Night. And in
Baile-in-Mionin, in the house of O'Troightigh, this was written by
Domhnall Albanach O'Troightigh; et Deo gratias Jesu.

THE PROEME OF JOCELIN.

It has been, from ancient times, the object and the design of most
writers to perpetuate, with a pen worthy of their virtues, the lives of
holy men, that the fervor of sanctity so deserving our veneration might
not be buried in oblivion, but rather that it might shine before all as
in a glass, to the end tha