was long and rough and difficult, and crossed borders of different
kingdoms. Then at the command of Saint Kiaranus, the cloak was placed
on the river Synna, and was sent alone with the river, and it came dry
over the waters to the island of Cathi; and no one saw it while it
travelled thither. The Synna flows from the settlement of Cluain meic
Nois to the estuary of Luimnech, in which the island of Cathi stands.

And Saint Senanus, filled with the spirit of prophecy, said to his
brethren, "Go ye to the shore of the sea, and bring to us with honour
the guest there seated, the gift of a man of God." And the brethren,
asking no questions, made their way to the sea, and found there the
cloak, perfectly dry, for it was untouched by the waters. And the holy
elder Senanus accepting it, gave thanks to God; and the cloak was in
honourable keeping with Saint Senanus, as though it were a sacred
diadem.


XLV. THE STORY OF CRITHIR

33. A certain boy of the company of holy Kiaranus, called Crithir of
Cluain (a boy of great wit, but hurtful and wanton) fled from Saint
Kiaranus to the settlement of Saigyr, in the northern border of
Mumonia, that is, the land of Hele, to the other Kiaranus, the most
holy aged bishop. And that boy, sojourning for some days with the holy
bishop, after his devilish manner took the drink of the brethren, and
poured it over the fire; extinguishing thus the consecrated fire. Now
Saint Kiaranus the elder would have no other fire in his monastery
save the consecrated fire, maintained without being extinguished from
Easter to Easter. When Saint Kiaranus the elder heard what the boy
Crithir did, it greatly displeased him, and he said, "Let him be