people and his dependents and his poor, and he kissed them in token
of love and peace. Thus, having banished images and the sacrifices
to idols, having converted multitudes to the true faith, having
established monasteries and ecclesiastical orders in various places,
having spent his whole life profitably and holily, this glorious
bishop went with the angels to heaven on the ninth day of the Kalends
of August and his body was blessed and honoured with Masses and
chanting by holy men and by the people of the Decies and by his own
monks and disciples collected from every quarter at the time of his
death. He was buried with honour in his own city--in Declan's
High-Place--in the tomb which by direction of an angel he had himself
indicated--which moreover has wrought wonders and holy signs from
that time to now. He departed to the Unity of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Ghost in Saecula Saeculorum; Amen. FINIS.


The poor brother, Michael O'Clery originally copied this life of
Declan in Cashel, from the book of Eochy O'Heffernan. The date,
A.D., at which that ancient book of Eochy was written is 1582. And
the same life has now been re-written in the Convent of the Friars at
Druiske, the date, A.D., 27th February, 1629.

And this Life of St. Declan was transcribed electronically for the
public domain by Dennis McCarthy, a layman, in the city of Atlanta in
Georgia of the United States of America. He copied this life from
the 1914 translation from the Irish to the English tongue by Rev. P.
Power of University College, Cork. Dennis has completed this work on
February 27 in the year of Our Lord 1997, and prayerfully dedicated
it to the memory of his deceased siblings.