disciples he advanced in fit places unto the
episcopal dignity. But by how many miracles his journey was graced,
how many diseased persons he healed, severally to relate, not even the
pen of the most eloquent could suffice. For divers received health,
not only by his touch or by his prayer, but even by the passing of his
shadow, as were he another Peter. So many as were not purified by the
healing water did he labor to persuade unto baptism; so many as were
already baptized, lest their faith should be perverted by the old enemy
or subverted by heretical doctrines, did he therein confirm. And since
faith, according to the Apostle James, is "dead without works," and
since a dead faith is no faith, this blessed preacher earnestly
persuaded the believers unto a holy and sincere faith by their diligent
working of good works. But they who, proceeding in all wickedness,
condemned his doctrine, and, rebelling against God, obstinately
persevered in the worship of devils, often at his prayer were they by
the suddenness of divine justice destroyed, as our relation has
hitherto declared, and will declare in the following pages.

CHAPTER LXIX.

_The Prophecy of the Saint Concerning Dublinia; and the Sick Man cured._

And the saint, departing from Midia, directed his course toward
Lagenia, for the purpose of preaching there; and on his journey he
crossed a river named Finglas to a certain hill distant about one mile
from the village Athcliath, the which is now called Dublinia; and
looking on this place and on the country around it, and blessing it,
thus spake he, prophesying: "This village, now so small, in time shall
be renowned, and it shall be increased in riches and in dignity until
it be advanced the royal seat of a kingdom." How truly he spake the
proof of this time manifestly showeth. And he entered the village, and
the dwellers therein, having heard of the miracles which he had wrought
in the Lord, came forth joyfully to meet him; and the son of the lord
of that place, his only son, was even at the point of death, so that
many said he had already expired. Then, at the entreaty of the father
and of the rest who flocked around him, the saint went unto the sick
man's bed, and bended his knees on the earth, and prayed, and blessed
him then dying, and snatched him from the jaws of death, and in the
sight of them all restored him. And they who beheld this miracle
believed in the Author of life, and by the holy pre