rs with
manifold miracles.

CHAPTER L.

_Of the Sisters and the Nephews of St. Patrick._

And the saint had three sisters, memorable for their holiness and for
their justice, and they were pleasing unto the Lord; and of these the
names were Lupita, Tygridia, and Darercha. And Tygridia was blessed
with a happy fruitfulness, for she brought forth seventeen sons and
five daughters. And all her sons became most wise and holy monks, and
priests, and prelates; and all her daughters became nuns, and ended
their days as holy virgins; and the names of the bishops were
Brochadius, Broichanus, Mogenochus, and Lumanus, who, with their uncle,
Saint Patrick, going from Britain into Ireland, earnestly laboring
together in the field of the Lord, they collected an abundant harvest
into the granary of heaven. And Darercha, the youngest sister, was the
mother of the pious bishops, Mel, Moch, and Munis, and their father was
named Conis. And these also accompanied Saint Patrick in his preaching
and in his travel, and in divers places obtained the episcopal dignity.
Truly did their generation appear blessed, and the nephews of Saint
Patrick were a holy heritage.

CHAPTER LI.

_How Saint Lumanus Sailed against the Wind and the Stream._

And Saint Patrick, having sailed over from Ulidia, came unto the
territory of Midia, at the mouth of the river Boinn, among barbarians
and idolaters; and he committed his vessel and its tackle unto his
nephew, Saint Lumanus, enjoining him that he should abide there at the
least forty days, the while he himself would go forward to preach in
the interior parts of the country. But Lumanus, abiding there the
messenger of light, and being made obedient through the hope of
obtaining martyrdom, doubled the space of time that was enjoined unto
him, which no one of his companions, even through the fear of their
lives, dared to do. Yet was not this child of obedience disappointed
of his reward. For while he received the seed of obedience, he brought
forth unto himself the fruit of patience, and deserved to fertilize
strange lands, even with the seed of the divine Word, to the
flourishing of the flowers of faith and the fruits of justice; and the
more devotedly he obeyed his spiritual father, the more marvellously
did the elements obey him. And having fulfilled there twice forty
days, and being wearied with the continual expectation of the saint's
return, on a certain day, the wind blowing str