51.

[724] Isa. xxviii. 19 (vg.).

[725] In Secs. 58-62 we have three stories in which Malachy appears
as a peacemaker.

[726] 1 Sam. xvii. 37, combined with 1 Chron. xxii. 16.

[727] Gen. xi. 3 (vg.).

[728] Judg. xvi. 24.

[729] Mark v. 38.

[730] This expression indicates that Malachy had a special relation to
one monastery. It can hardly have been any other than Bangor.

[731] Matt. xi. 17.

[732] 1 Kings xxii. 22; 2 Chron. xviii. 21.

[733] Josh. vi. 21; Judg. iv. 15, etc.

[734] Heb. xi. 8.

[735] Cp. Ps. x. 2.

[736] 1 John iv. 6.

[737] Cp. Mal. i. 6.

[738] Cp. Ps. vii. 16.

[739] Exod. viii. 19.

[740] Hos. ii. 6.

[741] Josh. vii. 15, etc.

[742] In Serm. ii. Sec. 2, where this story is again briefly told, the
miracle is more directly ascribed to Malachy, and the stream is said
to have swelled suddenly.

[743] Cp. Luke iv. 14, etc.

[744] Job v. 13, combined with 1 Cor. iii. 19.

[745] Ps. lxxv. 10.

[746] 1 Sam. ii. 10.

[747] Probably Turlough O'Conor, who is said by the annalists to have
imprisoned illegally several persons of high position, viz. (1) his
own son Rory O'Conor, together with Donnell O'Flaherty and Cathal
O'Conor, in 1143, (2) Murrough Ua Maelsechlainn, king of Meath, in
1143, and (3) Teague O'Brien, in 1148. Release was obtained, in the
first instance, in 1144 by the clergy of Ireland and the "coarb of
Patrick," who fasted at Rathbrennan. The coarb may have been Malachy.
In the second instance, it was secured through the influence of
certain "sureties"; and in the third, "at the intercession of the
bishops of Ireland with the coarb of Patrick, Mael Maedoc Ua Morgair"
(_A.F.M._, _A.T._). The Annals, however, know nothing of the blinding
of O'Conor. The incident in the text is mentioned in Serm. ii. Sec. 2.

[748] Gal iii. 19.

[749] Josh. vii. 15, etc.

[750] Acts xxiii. 14.

[751] An example of the well-known Irish custom of "fasting on" a
person with a view to his discomfiture (cp. p. 106, n. 9).

[752] Ps. lxxi. 4 (inexact quotation).

[753] Exod. viii. 19.

[754] Rev. v. 8.

[755] Isa. xxi. 15 (vg.).

[756] Ps. cxxxix. 7.

[757] Acts xiii. 11.

[758] Acts xxvi. 14.

[759] Ps. cxx. 4.

[760] Isa. xxviii. 19.

[761] Acts ix. 8.

[762] Acts ix. 18.

[763] Job xxx. 29.

[764] Luke x. 19 (quotation not exact).

[765] Ps. cxlix.

[766] See Sec. 13.

[767] This remark proves that the building of the oratory was begun
after Malac