y
bore the ark of the covenant from Acharon unto Getht. But by all these
wonders the fury of the Ardmachians is not appeased; for still is their
hand prepared unto battle, that the body of their prelate, their
primate, their patron, might not be riven from them. Nevertheless, the
divine Providence took heed that occasion of contest should not any
more be ministered; for another wain appearing, drawn by two oxen, went
before the Ardmachians, even like the former wain which had borne the
sacred body unto Dunum; and they stayed not to follow its track,
believing that it carried the precious burden, until it came within the
borders of Ardmachia, unto a certain river which is named Caucune.
Then the visionary wain disappeared; and the people, frustrated of
their hope, unsatisfied and sad, returned unto their dwellings.

CHAPTER CXCVI.

_The Sepulture of Saint Patrick in the City of Dunum._

And the people of Ultonia, having entered Dunum, celebrated the
solemnities of the Mass, and in the place foreshown by the heavenly
light buried the venerable body with all due veneration, and this
desirable treasure, this most precious jewel, they deposited beneath a
stone, five cubits deep in the heart of the earth, lest haply by
stealth it might be conveyed thence. But by how many and how great
miracles the bones of this most holy saint were graced therein, we find
not recorded; either because the pen of the negligent preserved them
not, or being written, they were destroyed by some of the many heathen
princes who ruled in Hibernia. Now, Saint Patrick died in the four
hundredth and ninetieth and third year of Christ's incarnation, Felix
being then pope, in the first year of the reign of Anastasius the
emperor, Aurelius Ambrosius ruling in Britain, Forchernus in Hibernia,
Jesus Christ reigning in all things and over all things.

Now unto Him be glory, and praise, and honor, and empire, through
infinite ages, for ever and ever! Amen!

HERE END THE ACTS OF SAINT PATRICK.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

TO THE

LIVES OF ST. PATRICK.

A.D.

1. St. Patrick was born in North Britain, near the Clyde, . . . 376
or thereabouts.

2. In the sixteenth year of his age he and Lupita, his sister,
were made captive by Scotch marauders, and, being led into
Ireland, were sold to Milcho in Dalaradia