he unmerciful man, being
mercifully saved, gave thanks unto the power that had saved him, and
believed in Christ, and received the grace of baptism. Thus doth the
Lord, distinguishing between the light and darkness, severely condemn
the reprobate and obstinate in evil, and mercifully saveth those who
fly unto his mercy.

CHAPTER LXII.

_How a huge Stone was raised by the Saint._

And the saint, passing along on a certain day, beheld a multitude of
men gathered together, that they might move from its place a very large
stone; and they had labored a long time, but in vain; for they were
wearied in their strength and fatigued with the unequal attempt, and to
raise the stone they prevailed not. Then the saint approached, even as
a builder of the temple of the living God to be builded in the Lord;
and having prayed and blessed their work, that huge stone, which could
not be stirred by an hundred hands, did he alone remove and raise and
place in its fit place. And the men who stood around marvelled at this
marvellous work, and were converted to believe in the God of Saint
Patrick; and they who hitherto, having stony hearts, worshipped stones,
this stone being raised by the saint, believed in the living Stone, the
precious Stone, the Corner-Stone, the elect Stone, the Stone which is
placed in the foundations of Sion; and this Stone had they long time
rejected; but now becoming themselves living stones, joined together
with the cement of the Christian faith, and following the sacred
doctrine, and being polished and purified in baptism, they grew in the
temple of the Lord.

CHAPTER LXIII.

_How the Women were raised from Death._

And wheresoever in his preaching went Patrick, the man of God, his lips
diffused the healing knowledge, and the number of the believers was
daily increased. And the Lord assisted his faithful servant with
manifold miracles, and confirmed his doctrine, for that he falsified
not the word of God, but always sought His praise and His glory. And
on a certain day he came to a place called Fearta, where at the side of
a hill two women who had deceased were buried. Then the man of God,
approaching the grave, commanded the earth to be removed, and, having
invoked the name of Christ, he raised them up to life. And the women
thus raised up, even in the presence of all around, proclaimed that
their idols were vain, and that their gods were devils, Christ alone
being the true God; and in H