was the name of the man; and it is of him Patrick said: "The covering of
Garban shall be the covering of a dead body; but I shall tell you more:
it is Garban who will be under it." His friends removed the covering
from his face, so that they found it so. They afterwards became mute,
and then said: "Truly this is a man of God." They all believed at once.
Mac Cuill believed also; and he went on sea in a cot of one hide, by the
command of Patrick. Garban was awakened from death through the prayers
of Patrick. Mac Cuill, however, went that very day on sea, and his right
hand towards Magh-Inis, until he reached Manann; and he found two
venerable persons before him on the island. It was they who preached the
word of God in Manann, and it is through their teaching that the people
of that island were baptized and believed; their names are Coninnri and
Romael. When those men saw Mac Cuill in his cot, they took him off the
sea; they received him kindly; and he learned the divine knowledge with
them, and spent his whole time with them, until he got the episcopacy of
the place after them. This is Mac Cuill, of Mann, famous bishop and
abbot. May his holy favor assist us!

One time Patrick slept on a Sunday, on a hill over the sea, at Drombo,
when he heard the noise of Gentiles digging a rath on the Sabbath. He
called them, and told them to cease. They heeded him not, but began to
mock him. And Patrick said: "My _debroth_, your labor shall not profit
you." This was fulfilled; for on the following night a great tempest
arose and destroyed their work, according to the word of Patrick.

Patrick said to Eochaidh, son of Muiredach that there should never be a
king from him, nor enough of his race to constitute an assembly or army
in Ulster, but that his tribe would be scattered and dispersed, that his
own life would be short, and that he would meet a tragic fate. This was
the cause Patrick had against Eochaidh, as the learned say: Two virgins,