ef and sorrow. O beautiful and
well-beloved brethren and children! whom I have brought forth in Christ
in such multitudes, what shall I do for you? I am not worthy before
God or man to come to your assistance. The wicked have prevailed over
us. We have become outcasts. It would seem that they do not think we
have one baptism and one Father, God. They think it an indignity that
we have been born in Ireland; as He said: "Have ye not one God? Why do
ye each forsake his neighbor?" Therefore I grieve for you--I grieve, O
my beloved ones! But, on the other hand, I congratulate myself I have
not labored for nothing--my journey has not been in vain. This
horrible and amazing crime has been permitted to take place. Thanks be
to God, ye who have believed and have been baptized have gone from
earth to paradise. Certainly, ye have begun to migrate where there is
no night or death or sorrow; but ye shall exult like young bulls loosed
from their bonds and tread down the wicked under your feet as dust.

Truly, you shall reign with the apostles and prophets and martyrs, and
obtain the eternal kingdom, as He hath testified, saying: "They shall
come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven." Without are dogs, and
sorcerers, and murderers, and liars, and perjurers, and they shall have
their part in the everlasting lake of fire. Nor does the apostle say
without reason: "If the just are scarcely saved, where shall the
sinner, the impious, and the transgressor of the law appear?" Where
will Coroticus and his wicked rebels against Christ find themselves
when they shall see rewards distributed amongst the baptized women?
What will he think of his miserable kingdom, which shall pass away in a
moment, like clouds or smoke, which are dispersed by the wind? So
shall deceitful sinners perish before the face of the Lord, and the
just shall feast with great confidence with Christ, and judge the
nations, and rule over unjust kings, for ever and ever. Amen.

I testify before God and His angels that it shall be so, as He hath
intimated to my ignorance. These are not my words that I have set
forth in Latin, but those of God and the prophets and apostles, who
never lied: "He that believeth shall be saved, but he that believeth
not shall be condemned."

God hath said it. I entreat whosoever is a servant of God that he be a
willing bearer of this letter, that he be not draw