_How he restored to Life his Foster-Father._

The husband of Saint Patrick's nurse, who had often-times borne him an
infant in his arms, being seized with a sudden death, expired. And his
wife, with many others of the household, ran thither, and to Patrick,
who was standing nigh, bursting into tears, she thus spake: "Behold, O
Patrick! thy foster-father, the bearer of thine infancy, lieth dead;
show now, therefore, on him thine enlivening virtue, even that which
hath been wont to heal others!" And the boy of holy disposition,
compassionating the tears of his nurse and the miserable state of his
foster-father, approached him lying there lifeless, and he prayed over
him and blessed him, and signed him on his head and on his breast with
the sign of life, and he embraced him, and raised him up, and restored
him unto her alive and safe. And all who beheld this miracle gave
praise to God, who worked such works in Patrick.




CHAPTER VIII.

_Of the Sheep released from the Wolf._

While Saint Patrick was a little boy, his aunt entrusted him with the
care of the sheep, and to these he diligently attended with his
aforementioned sister. For in that age no reproach was attached to
such employments when the sons of the chief men discharged the duties
of a shepherd; as the patriarch Jacob and his sons truly declared
before Pharao, that they, like their forefathers, were keepers of
sheep; and as the lawgiver Moses and the illustrious King David long