d on his journey. And
he came unto a neighboring town, which is now called the Castle Cnoc,
where a certain infidel named Murinus governed. Him did the saint
desire to lead into the path of life; but this son of death, hearing
the fame of his virtue and of his wisdom, which he feared no one could
resist, absented himself from the saint, even as from a fierce enemy.
And the saint required him that he would at the least give unto him of
his abundance; but he, concealing himself in an inner chamber, required
him that he would at the least suffer him to sleep. The which commands
being of each oftentimes repeated, the saint, at the inspiration of the
Spirit, understanding him to be a child of perdition, exclaimed: "Let
him sleep, let him sleep; nor until the day of judgment let him awaken
or arise!" Then the saint departed, and the wretched man sank into the
sleep of death. Thus when the sleeper, covered with the darkness of
unbelief, refused to awake at the heavenly voice which called him from
the dead, that he might be illuminated of Christ, he descended into the
dark grave, there to remain for ever covered with the darkness of
death. Therefore, even to this day, it is among the Irish a frequent
imprecation on a feigned sleeper, Mayest thou sleep, as at the word of
Saint Patrick Murinus slept!

CHAPTER LXXIII.

_Foylge is punished with a double Death, and the deceiving Fiend is
driven out of his body._

And in Lagenia was a certain wicked idolater named Foylge, who was an
eminent adversary of Christ, so far forth as he was able; this child of
Belial frequently sought occasion to lay on Patrick, the anointed of
the Lord, his impious hands, for to him it was very grievous not only
to see but even to hear the saint. To this inveterate malice was he
urged, for that the man of God had destroyed the aforementioned idol
Ceancroythi, unto the abominable worship whereof he was especially
bound. But when he could not effect his wicked purpose, he one day
attacked the charioteer of Saint Patrick, who was named Odranus; for he
seized him sitting in the chariot, and strangled him, so that by the
one act of blood his fury might be the more fiercely excited toward
another. And the saint, wounded in his heart, cast the weapon of his
malediction on this child of hell, who, pierced thereby, even at the
moment breathed out his soul into the infernal regions. Of some it is
said that Odranus, foreknowing the servant of Satan