ches to King Leary at Tara, . . . . . . . . 436

18. St. Patrick returned to Rome, and sent St. Kranie and his
five companions to preach the Gospel, . . . . . . . . . . . 445

19. St. Patrick gives St. Bridget the veil in the fourteenth
year of her age, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

20. Armagh is made a metropolitan see, and councils are
celebrated, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

21. St. Patrick again visits Rome, probably for the confirmation
of his council, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

22. St. Patrick dies, the eighty-second year of his age, at
Down, attended by St. Bridget, who had, he was conscious,
foreknown the time of his death, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Some chronologies extend the life of St. Patrick by forty
or forty-five years.

23. The Confession of St. Patrick was written, . . . . . . . . 455

24. The Epistle to Coroticus, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

25. The Metrical Life of St. Patrick by St. Fiech, . . . . . . 493

26. The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick by St. McEvin, . . . . 510

27. The Life of St. Patrick by Jocelyn, . . . . . . . . . . . 1185

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