the way of all flesh. Therefore it is the will of God that
thou leavest not this place; but by thy conversation and example shalt
thou endeavor to gain over a people acceptable unto him, and which
shall follow good works; forasmuch as the crown of life is yet to be
seen, which he hath promised unto those who love him." Thus saying,
the vision disappeared, and Vinvaloeus did as he was bidden of heaven.
Now let the hearer admire his perfection, who by the spirit which was
in him saw the desire of the holy man dwelling in Armorica, and thus
wondrously changed him from the purpose of his intended journey.

CHAPTER CLXXXIII.

_The Daily Prayers and Genuflexions of the Saint._

And now, the cloud of unbelief, by whose eclipse the people of Hibernia
so long had wanted the warmth and the light of the true sun, being
dispersed, now did the tongue, the life, the virtue of the blessed
Patrick, so long as the breath and the Spirit of God were in his
nostrils, avail unto the things which were begun, continued, and ended
in the Lord; giving the knowledge of salvation, affording the example
of holiness, extending the remedy of all diseases. And verily, this
peculiar habit of life, which he exercised in secret, was daily and
perpetual; inasmuch as every day was he wont diligently to sing the
entire Psaltery, with many songs and hymns, and the Apocalypse of the
Apostle John, and two hundred prayers before God; three hundred times
did he bend his knees in adoration of the Lord; every canonical hour of
the day did he one hundred times sign himself with the sign of the
cross. Nevertheless did he not omit every day worthily and devoutly to
offer up unto the Father the sacrifice of the Son; and never ceased he
to teach the people or instruct his disciples.

CHAPTER CLXXXIV.

_How he passed the Night Season._

And in a wondrous manner dividing the night season, thus did this
wakeful guardian and laborer in the Lord's vineyard distinguish that
also. For in the earliest part thereof having with two hundred
genuflexions and one hundred psalms praised God, then applied he unto
study and in the latter part, he plunged himself into cold water, and
raising his heart, his voice, his eyes, and his hands towards heaven,
offered he one hundred and fifty prayers. Afterward he stretched
himself on a bare stone, and of another stone making a pillow, he
rested his most sanctified body with a short sleep; or, that more
clearly we ma