the wine was drawn; and lo, even yet its odour remains thereupon."
Then they all drew near, and being sated with the pleasant and sweet
odour of that holy elder, they cried aloud saying, "Truly much better
was that feast whose odour remains on a finger most sweet for so long
a time." And they blessed Saint Kiaranus, giving praises to God.

And in those days, in which the brethren of Saint Kiaranus were sowing
their crops, there came merchants with wine of the Gauls to Saint
Kiaranus, and they filled a huge vessel, the _solitana_ of the
brethren, from that wine, which Saint Kiaranus gave to his brethren
with his benediction.


XLIX. THE DEATH OF CIARAN

35. Our most holy patron Kiaranus lived but for one year in his
settlement of Cluain. When he knew that the day of his death was
approaching, he prophesied, deploring the subsequent evils that would
come to pass in his place after him; and he said that their life would
be short. Then the brethren said unto him, "What then shall we do in
the time of those evils? Shall we abide here beside thy relics, or
shall we go to other places?" To them Saint Kiaranus said, "Haste ye
to other quiet places, and leave my relics here like the dry bones of
a stag on a mountain. For it is better for you to be with my spirit in
heaven than beside my bones on earth, and stumbling withal."

Saint Kiaranus used greatly to crucify his body, and we write here an
example of this. He ever had a stone pillow beneath his head, which
till to-day remains in the monastery of Saint Kiaranus, and is
reverenced by every one. Moreover, when he was growing weak, he would