was rich in such abundance that, divided daily, it would supply a
sufficiency of provision for twelve men.

But the holy youth Keranus, deeply occupied with the sacred Scripture,
shone in holiness and wisdom among his fellow-students as a brilliant
star among the other stars. For he was filled with the fragrance of
perfect charity, with moral worth, with holiness of life, and with
sweetness of humility, gracious, honourable, and admirable to present
and to absent.


XXVI. HOW CIARAN FREED A WOMAN FROM SERVITUDE

5. One day he made his way to a king, Tuathlus by name, to intercede
for the liberation of a certain bond-maid. When he besought the king
fervently for her, and _he_ rejected the prayers of the servant of God
as though they were ravings, he thought out a new method of liberating
her, and determined that he himself should serve the king in her
place. Now when he was coming to the house in which the girl was
grinding, the doors which were shut opened to him. Entering, he showed
himself a second Bishop Paulinus to her. Without delay the king
freed her, and further presented his vesture to the servant of God.
Receiving this, he forthwith distributed it to the poor.


XXIV. THE STORY OF THE MILL AND THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER _(abstract
only)_

6. It fell out one night that the eminent doctor Finnianus sent him
with grain of wheat to the mill. Now a certain kingling who lived