IV. HOW CIARAN TURNED WATER INTO HONEY

3. On another day the mother of Saint Kyaranus upbraided him, saying,
"The sensible other boys bring honey to their parents every day, from
the fields and the places where honey is found. But this our son,
weak and soft as he is, bringeth us no honey." The holy boy Kyaranus,
hearing this saying of his mother chiding him, made his way to a
spring hard by, and thence filled a vessel with water. When he blessed
it, honey of the best was made from the water, and he gave it to his
mother. But his parents, astonished at the miracle, sent that honey to
the deacon Iustus, who had baptized him, that he might himself see the
miracle wrought by God through the boy whom he baptized. When he had
heard and seen it, he gave thanks to Christ, and prayed for the boy.


VI. HOW CIARAN AND HIS INSTRUCTOR CONVERSED, THOUGH DISTANT FROM ONE
ANOTHER

4. The holy boy Kyaranus, as he kept the flocks of his parents, was
wont to read the Psalms with Saint Diarmatus. But that teaching was
imparted in a manner to us most wondrous. For Saint Kiaranus was
keeping the flocks in the southern part of the plain of Aei, and Saint
Diarmatus was dwelling in the northern part of the same plain, and the
plain was of great extent between them. And thus, from afar off, they
would salute each the other at ease, with words, across the spaces of
the plain; and the elder would teach the boy from his cell across the
plain, and the boy would read, sitting upon a rock in the field. The
which rock is reverenced unto this day, as the Cross of Christ, called
by the name of Kyaranus, is placed upon it. Now thus by divine favour
were the holy ones wont to hear each the other, while others heard