saint, confiding in, and committing all unto, the Lord, faithfully
promised what the king required. Then the damsel, being veiled and
consecrated, and serving the Lord in virginity and in the exercise of
all other virtues, brought by her example many unto His devotion; and
during her life and after her death she was renowned by divers
miracles. And the saint commended her unto the care of the holy virgin
Cethuberis, who first of all the women of Ireland had received from him
the veil, and to whom, being placed over the Monastery of Druimduchan,
with a great multitude of virgins serving Christ, the saint himself
addressed an exhortatory epistle. And in this monastery did Cynnia
abide, until at length with many holy virgins she rested there in the
Lord.

CHAPTER LXXX.

_The King Echu is raised from Death._

And after some time had passed, the King Echu was reduced to the bed of
sickness, and when he perceived that his strength failed, and the day
of his death approached, he sent a messenger to call Saint Patrick unto
him. And he strictly forbade that his body should be buried until the
arrival of the saint; for that he had promised unto him the heavenly
kingdom, and especially, that the king desired to receive from him the
heavenly baptism. Thus saying, he expired, and his body was kept for
the space of one day and one night unburied, in expectation of the
saint. And he, then abiding in the Monastery of Saballum, which was
distant two days' journey, knew in the spirit of the king's death, and,
ere the messenger could arrive, had made ready for the journey. And
the saint came, and mourned over the king, especially for that he had
died without baptism. Therefore prayed he unto the Lord, and loosed
him from the bonds of double death, and forthwith instructed in the
faith him restored unto life, and baptized him, and bade him that for
the edification of the people and for the proof of his preaching he
should relate what he had seen of the pains of the wicked and of the
joys of the just. And he told unto them many wonders, and there among
that in that heavenly country he had beheld the place which Patrick had
promised unto him; but, because he was not then baptized, he could not
enter therein; and so at the prayers of the saint his body was revived.
Then the saint enquired of him whether would he longer live in this
world, or instantly go into that place which was prepared for him; and
he answered that all t