it on
the hand of the bishop, and it restored it to life. For in truth _the
grace of healings_[914] lived in the dead; and his hand was to the dead
hand what Elisha was to the dead man.[915] The boy _had come from
far_[916] and the hand which he brought hanging down, he carried back
whole to his own country. Now, all things having been duly accomplished
in the very oratory of Saint Mary, Mother of God, _in which he was well
pleased_,[917] Malachy is carried to his burial[918] in the eleven
hundred and forty-eighth year from the Incarnation of the Lord, on the
fourth of the Nones of November.[919] Thine, good Jesus, is _the
deposit_ which has been committed to us,[920] Thine is the treasure
which is laid up with us.[921] We _keep_ it[922] to be given back at the
time when Thou shalt see fit to recall it; only that he may not go forth
without his comrades, but that him whom we have had as our guest we may
have also as our leader, when we _shall reign_ with Thee, and with him
also, _for ever and ever_.[923] Amen.

FOOTNOTES:

[821] _I.e._ "If I die in Ireland."

[822] In Armagh. See Secs. 19, 65.

[823] All Souls' Day, November 2.

[824] Matt. v. 18.

[825] Ps. xlviii. 8.

[826] Note that the pall is called a sacrament.

[827] See Sec. 38.

[828] Bernard Paganelli, a monk of Clairvaux, was sent to Rome by St.
Bernard at the request of Innocent II. and was appointed abbot of the
monastery of St. Anastasius. On the death of Lucius II. he was elected
Pope, February 15, 1144, and assumed the title of Eugenius III. (H. K.
Mann, _Lives of the Popes_, ix. 131 ff.)

[829] Eugenius left Viterbo at the beginning of 1147. He was at Lyons
in March, and at Troyes on April 10 (Jaffe, p. 624 ff.; Mann, ix.
185).

[830] In accordance with the instructions of Innocent II. (Sec. 38):
"A Synod was convened at Inis Patraic by Mael Maedoc, coarb of Patrick,
at which were present fifteen bishops and two hundred priests, to
establish rules and morals for all, both laity and clergy; and Mael
Maedoc Ua Morgair, by the advice of the Synod, went a second time to
Rome (_sic_) to confer with the comarb of Peter" (_A.F.M._ 1148).
Inispatrick is a small island off Skerries, co. Dublin. For the date
see _R.A.I._ xxxv. 249 f. In the same year Malachy had consecrated the
monastery of Knock (_A.F.M._ See p. 67, n. 3).

[831] St. Bernard seems to have thought that St. Malachy set sail
immediately after the Synod, and from a port not far fr