received the Body and Blood of Christ and the Sacraments of the Church
from his [MacLiag's] hand--surrounded by holy men and his disciples, and
he blessed his people and his dependents and his poor, and he kissed them
in token of love and peace. Thus, having banished images and the
sacrifices to idols, having converted multitudes to the true faith,
having established monasteries and ecclesiastical orders in various
places, having spent his whole life profitably and holily, this glorious
bishop went with the angels to heaven on the ninth day of the Kalends of
August [July 24] and his body was blessed and honoured with Masses and
chanting by holy men and by the people of the Decies and by his own monks
and disciples collected from every quarter at the time of his death. He
was buried with honour in his own city--in Declan's High-Place--in the
tomb which by direction of an angel he had himself indicated--which
moreover has wrought wonders and holy signs from that time to now. He
departed to the Unity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost in
Saecula Saeculorum; Amen. FINIS.


The poor brother, Michael O'Clery originally copied this life of Declan
in Cashel, from the book of Eochy O'Heffernan. The date, A.D., at which
that ancient book of Eochy was written is 1582. And the same life has
now been re-written in the Convent of the Friars at Druiske, the date,
A.D., 27th February, 1629.



NOTE


The Irish text of the "rann" from paragraph 26 reads: