ipture says, "Vengeance is mine I will repay" [Deuteronomy 32:35].
The dwellers in the village, who numbered sixty, died that same night
with the exception of two men and ten women to whom the conduct of the
others towards the saint had been displeasing. On the morrow these
men and women came humbly to the place where Declan was and they told
him--what he himself foreknew--how miserably the others had died. They
themselves did penance and they bestowed on Declan a suitable site
whereon he built a monastery and he got another piece of land and had the
dead buried where he built the monastery. The name of that monastery is
Cill-Colm-Dearg. This Colm-Dearg was a kind, holy man and a disciple of
Declan. He was of East Leinster, i.e. of the Dal Meiscorb, and it is
from him that the monastery is named. When he (Declan) had completed
that place he came to his own territory again, i.e. to the Decies.

34. On a certain day Declan came to a place called Ait-Breasail and the
dwellers therein would not allow him to enter their village; moreover
they hid all their boats so that he could not go into his own island, for
they hated him very much. In consideration however of the sanctity of
his servant, who prayed in patience, God the All-Powerful turned the sea
into dry land as you have already heard. Declan passed the night in an
empty stable out in the plain and the people of the village did not give
him even a fire. Whereupon, appropriately the anger of God fell on them,
who had not compassion enough to supply the disciple of God with a fire.
There came fire from heaven on them to consume them all [together with
their] homestead and village, so that the place has been ever since a
wilderness accursed, as the prophet writes: "civitates eorum
destruxisti" [Psalm 9:7] (the dwellings of the unmerciful are laid
waste).

35. On yet another occasion Declan was in his own region--travelling
over Slieve Gua in the Decies, when his horse from some cause got lame so
that he could proceed no further. Declan however, seeing a herd of deer
roaming the mountain close to him, said to one of his people: "Go, and
bring me for my chariot one of these deer to replace my horse and take
with you this halter for him." Without any misgiving the disciple went
on till he reached the deer which waited quietly for him. He chose the
animal which was largest and therefore strongest, and, bringing him back,
yoked him to the chariot. The deer ther