the men of Muma, save
those of Tuathmuma. Donnchad mac meic Carthaig came from them--for he
was not in the alliance--with 2000 men."

The other Annals have notices to the same effect. These events
occurred in 1127, three years after Malachy returned from his long
stay at Lismore, and was made bishop of Connor (Sec. 16). If he had the
part which is ascribed to him in the restoration of Cormac, he must
therefore have paid two visits to Lismore, which St. Bernard has
confounded. That he was in the south of Ireland for a considerable
time prior to 1129 will appear later (p. 40, n. 2).

[252] Rom. xii. 19.

[253] _Necessitatem in uirtutem conuertit._ Apparently a proverbial
expression. Cp. Quintilian _Declam._ iv. 10: "Faciamus potius de fine
remedium, de necessitate solatium"; Jer. _Adv. Rufin._ iii. 2: "Habeo
gratiam quod facis de necessitate uirtutem"; _Ep._ 54. 6 (Hilberg):
"Arripe, quaeso, occasionem et fac de necessitate uirtutem." Chaucer's
"To maken vertu of necessitee" is well known (_Knightes Tale_, 3042,
_Squieres Tale_, 593, _Troilus and Criseyde_, iv. 1586).

[254] Gen. ix. 6.

[255] Gen. iv. 10.

[256] Ps. cxix. 103.

[257] Ps. vi. 6 (vg.).

[258] Ps. xxiv. 18.

[259] Ps. lxvi. 20.

[260] Ecclus. li. 11.

[261] Ps. xxxvii. 37 (vg.).

[262] Ps. cxlvi. 7.

[263] 2 Chron. xxxvi. 22.--Conor O'Brien. See p. 21, n. 3. It appears
from the last sentence of the passage there quoted that Donough
MacCarthy, to whom Turlough O'Conor had given the kingdom of Desmond,
had driven out O'Brien from Thomond. This explains the anxiety of the
latter to make alliance with Cormac. His action was less disinterested
than St. Bernard represents it.

[264] Luke xxi. 15.

[265] Malchus.

[266] Judas Maccabaeus.

[267] 1 Macc. iii. 60.

[268] Mark vi. 20.

[269] Ps. cxix. 46.

[270] Acts ix. 15.

CHAPTER II

_Malachy's pity for his deceased sister. He restores the Monastery of
Bangor. His first Miracles._

11. (6). Meanwhile Malachy's sister, whom we mentioned before,[271]
died: and we must not pass over the visions which he saw about her. For
the saint indeed abhorred her carnal life, and with such intensity that
he vowed he would never see her alive in the flesh. But now that her
flesh was destroyed his vow was also destroyed, and he began to see in
spirit her whom in the body he would not see. One night he heard in a
dream the voice of one saying to him that his sister was standing
outside i