s, a cow brought it back sound from the abyss.

6. When as a boy he was praying the Lord, and was spending his time in
prayer, fire came from above in the citadel of the pole. The dead boy
descried the lights of life, and the saints glorify the mighty Lord.
Sparkling fire falling from heaven is kindled and forthwith he
completes his especial duty.

7. To the high and ineffable company of apostles of the heavenly
Jerusalem, the lofty watch-tower, sitting on thrones shining like the
sun, Queranus the holy priest, the eminent messenger of Christ, is
exalted by the heavenly hands of angels, with the happy clans of holy
ones made perfect; whom Thou, Christ, hast sent as a man, an apostle
to the world, glorious in all the latest times.

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THE THIRD LATIN LIFE OF SAINT CIARAN

II. THE ORIGIN AND BIRTH OF CIARAN: THE WIZARD'S PROPHECIES

1. The blessed and venerable abbot Queranus was born of a noble and
religious stock of the Scots, of a father Beoid, that is Boeus, by
name, who was a cartwright, and of a mother Darerca; of these many
saints were born. This man of God was prophesied of by Saint Patrick,
fifty years before his birth. Moreover when his mother, sitting in
a carriage one day, passed near the house of a certain wizard, the
wizard, hearing the noise of the carriage said in prophecy, "The
carriage soundeth under a king." And when his folk went in surprise to
see the truth of the matter, and beheld no one but the wife of Boeus
in the carriage, they said in mockery, "Lo, the wife of Beoit sitteth
in the carriage." To whom the wizard said, "Not of her do I speak, but
of the son whom she hath in her womb, who shall be a mighty king; and
as the sun blazeth in mid-day, so shall he with miracles shine and
illumine this island." After this, as his father was being burdened
under the taxes of Anmereus, that is Anmirech, leaving his native
region he departed into the territory of the Conactei; and there in
the plain of Ay he begat his blessed son Queranus, who was baptized
and instructed by a certain holy man, Dermicius by name. And the holy
boy, in manners beyond his years, worked many wonders.

III. HOW CIARAN RAISED THE STEED OF OENGUS FROM DEATH

2. So when the horse of the son of the king of that territory died by
accident, he saw in a vision a shining man saying to him, "The holy
boy Quieranus who liveth among you, can quicken thy horse. Present him
with a reward