efore
is the strangeness of this miracle to be admired, the holiness of
Patrick to be venerated, and in all these things the power of the
omnipotent God to be adored; and herein by a most evident sign did the
Lord illustrate Saint Patrick, whose preaching afterward inflamed many
that had been frozen in unbelief with the fire of faith and of the
charity of God.

CHAPTER VI.

_How the Sister of St. Patrick was healed._

On a certain day the sister of Saint Patrick, the aforementioned
Lupita, being then of good stature, had run about the field, at the
command of her aunt, to separate the lambs from the ewes, for it was
then weaning time, when her foot slipped, and she fell down and smote
her head against a sharp flint, and her forehead was struck with a
grievous wound, and she lay even as dead; and many of the household ran
up, and her kindred and her friends gathered together to comfort the
maiden wounded and afflicted; and her brother came with the rest,
compassionating his sister, but confiding in the divine medicine; for,
drawing near, he raised her, and, touching with his spittle the thumb
of his right hand, he imprinted on her forehead, stained with blood,
the sign of the cross, and forthwith he healed her; yet the scar of the
wound remained as a sign, I think, of the miracle that was performed,
and a proof of the holiness of him who, by his faith in the cross of
Christ, had done this thing.

CHAPTER VII.

_How he restored to Life his Foster-Father._

The husband of Saint Patrick's nurse, who had often-times borne him an
infant in his arms, being seized with a sudden death, expired. And his
wife, with many others of the household, ran thither, and to Patrick,
who was standing nigh, bursting into tears, she thus spake: "Behold, O
Patrick! thy foster-father, the bearer of thine infancy, lieth dead;
show now, therefore, on him thine enlivening virtue, even that which
hath been wont to heal others!" And the boy of holy disposition,
compassionating the tears of his nurse and the miserable state of his
foster-father, approached him lying there lifeless, and he prayed over
him and blessed him, and signed him on his head and on his breast with
the sign of life, and he embraced him, and raised him up, and restored
him unto her alive and safe. And all who beheld this miracle gave
praise to God, who worked such works in Patrick.

CHAPTER VIII.

_Of the Sheep released from the Wolf._

While Sain