ach Psalm,
reciting _Beati_ after each fifty, and _Hymnum dicat_ after every
_Beati_ in cross-vigil (_i.e._, standing upright with his arms
stretched out sideways horizontally). He was not to lie down but only
to sit, was to observe the canonical hours, and was to meditate on the
Passion of Christ and upon his own sins.

The author of LA betrays his Irish personality by a phrase which he
uses of Oenna. Ciaran bids his followers to fetch _materiam abbatis
uestri_--"the makings of your abbot." This is a regular idiom for
an heir-apparent, and it shows that if the writer be not actually
translating from an Irish document, he is at least thinking in Irish
as he writes in Latin.

XL. HOW CIARAN RECOVERED HIS GOSPEL (LA, VG)

There is another story of a gospel recovered from a lake, but without
any mention of a cow as the agent for its rescue (CS, 556). The tale
may be founded on fact. The "Port of the Gospel" is now forgotten.

Books preserved as relics (_e.g._ the gospels belonging to a sainted
founder) were kept in metal shrines, and valuable books which were in
use were hung in satchels of leather on the walls of the library or
scriptorium. Two specimens of such satchels still remain.

XLI. HOW CIARAN WENT FROM INIS AINGHIN TO CLONMACNOIS (LA, LB, VG)

_Parallels._--As Ciaran gave up his monastery to Donnan, in like
manner Munnu surrendered his settlement to the virgin Emer (CS, 495).
The list of equipments delivered by Ciaran to Donnan introduces us
to the "human beast of burden," Mael-Odran, a servile functionary
occasionally met with in Irish literature. A well-known incident of
St. Adamnan introduces him travelling "with his mother on his back"
(see Reeves, _Vita Columbae_, p. 179). As to the bell, it may be worth
noting that my friend Mr. Walter Campbell, formerly of Athlone, has
informed me that an ancient bronze ecclesiastical bell, found on the
lake shore opposite Hare Island, was long preserved, and used as
a domestic bell, in the cottage of a man named Quigley. The owner
believed that it was the bell of St. Ciaran, possibly that mentioned
in VG: this is not impossible, though hardly likely, as a bell of such
antiquity would most probably be of iron, and rendered useless
by corrosion. Unfortunately, the bell in question is no longer
forthcoming: it disappeared one day from Quigley's house, stolen, he
believed, by a tourist who chanced to pass by.

Note Donnan's relationship to Senan as set forth in VG