On yet another occasion in the springtime a poor man who dwelt some
distance from the monastery of Rahen, came to Mochuda, and asked the
loan of two oxen and a ploughman to do a day's ploughing for him. But
Mochuda, as we have already said, had no cattle, for it was the monks
themselves who dug and tilled the soil. Mochuda summoned one of his
labourers named Aodhan whom he ordered to go into the nearest wood to
bring back thence a pair of deer with him and go along with them to the
poor man to do the spring work for him. Aodhan did dutifully all that
Mochuda bade him--he found the two deer, went with the poor man and
ploughed for him till the work was completed when the deer returned to
their habitat and Aodhan to Mochuda.

On another day there came to Mochuda a man troubled by the devil.
Mochuda cured him at once, driving the demons from him and the man went
his way thanking God and Mochuda.

Once, when the brethren were at work in the fields and in the kitchen,
Mochuda went to the mill to grind meal for the monk's use, and nine
robbers, who hated him, followed with the intention of murdering him.
The chief of the band sent each member of the gang to the mill in turn.
Not one of them however could enter the mill because of a violent flame
of fire which encircled the building round about, through the goodness
of God protecting Mochuda from the robbers. The latter, through the
mill door, watched Mochuda who slept portion of the time and was awake
another portion. And while he slept the mill stopped of itself, and
while he was awake it went of its own accord. The gang thereupon
returned to the chief and told him all they had seen, which, when he
heard, he became enraged. Then he hastened himself to the mill to kill
Mochuda. But he experienced the same things as all the others and he