found an unconsecrated youth in the port, whom despising they left
there. Coming back, they said unto Saint Kiaranus, "We found no man
there save an unconsecrated youth, who wandered as a fugitive in the
woods; he it is who calleth in the port. Far removed from abbotship
is _his_ rudeness!" To these Saint Kiaranus said: "Voyage ye without
delay and bring him with speed; for the Lord having revealed it to me,
by his voice I have recognised that he shall be your abbot after me."
When the brethren heard this, they forthwith led him in, and Saint
Kiaranus tonsured him, and he read diligently with him, and was filled
from day to day with the grace of God; and after the most blessed
Kiaranus, he was the holy abbot. For he is the blessed Aengus, son of
Luigse.


XL. HOW CIARAN RECOVERED HIS GOSPEL

29. The gospel-book of Saint Kieranus fell into the lake from the hand
of one of the brethren, who held it carelessly when voyaging. For a
long time it was therein, under the water, and was not found. But on
a certain day, in summer, the kine entered the lake to refresh
themselves in the waters, for the greatness of the heat; and when the
kine had returned from the lake, the binding of the leather satchel
containing the gospel-book caught about the hoof of a cow, and so the
cow dragged the book-satchel on her hoof as she came to land. And the
gospel-book was found in the rotten leather satchel, perfectly dry
and clean, without any moisture, as though it had been preserved in a
book-case. Saint Kiaranus with his followers were rejoiced thereat.


XLI. HOW CIARAN WENT FROM INIS AINGIN TO CLONMACNOIS