RVITUDE

22. One time Ciaran went to ask another slave-girl of King Furbaide.
Then one man gifted him a cow as an alms, another gifted him a cloak,
and another a kettle. Forthwith on the same day he gave them all to
poor folk; and God gifted to Ciaran three gifts yet better, a cauldron
instead of the kettle, twelve robes instead of the one robe, twelve
kine instead of the one cow. When the king saw that, he gave him the
slave-girl.

XXIX. THE PARTING OF FINDIAN AND CIARAN

23. When the time came for Ciaran to bid farewell to his teacher, he
offers to put his monastery at his service. "Nay," said Ciaran,[28]
"sever not thy monastery for any save for God alone, Who hath given
thee favour beyond us all." ["The monastery I give thee," said
Findian.][29] Ciaran weeps, for he thought it noble of his teacher to
offer him his monastery. "Well, then, let there be unity between us
henceforth," said Findian, "and let him who breaketh that unity have
no part in earth or in heaven." "Be it so," said Ciaran. Then Ciaran
went his way; and Colum Cille uttered this testimony of him--

A wondrous youth from us departs,
Ciaran, craftsman's son;
Of greed, of pride, reviling, lust,
satire, he hath none.

XXXII. CIARAN IN ARAN

24. Thereafter Ciaran went to Aran to hold converse with Enda, and
Enda and Ciaran saw one and the same vision--a great fruitful tree
beside a river in the middle of Ireland, a-sheltering the island of
Ireland, and its fruit was going over the sea that was around the
island outside, and the birds of the air were coming and taking of the
fruit. Ciaran went and told the vision to Enda. Said Enda, "That great
tree which thou hast seen is thyself; for thou art great before God
and man, and Ireland shall be full of thine honour. This island
shall be protected under the shadow of thy grace, and many shall
be satisfied by the grace of thy fasting and of thy prayer. Rise
therefore at the word of God, and go to the shore of the stream, and
found a church there."[30]

XXXIII. HOW A PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED

25. Once when he was in Aran a-drying corn in the kiln, and Lonan the
Left-handed with him (one who ever was contradictious of Ciaran) they
saw a ship foundering in their sight. "Methinks," said Lonan, "yonder
ship shall be drowned to-day and this kiln shall be burned with the
greatness of the draught." "Nay," said Ciaran, "yonder ship shall be
burned, and this kiln with its corn shall be drow