his linage inherite. Thence hee journeyed vvith a great number of his Disciples and friends to Conill Lord of Connaght, (vvho honourably reputed him, and with all his people was converted) and then sent him to Logan his Brother, King of Leinster, vvhom hee likewise perswaded. In Mounster he was highly honoured of the Earle of Daris, who gave him a dwelling in the East angle of Ardmagh, called Secta, where hee erected many Celles and Monasteries, replenished with votarious men and women. Thirty yeares continually hee travailed in preaching through the Land, ever leaving behinde him Bishops and Priests, whose learning and holinesse by the speciall grace of God shortly repaired the faith so begunne, other thirty yeares hee spent in his Province of Ardmagh among his ghostly brethren, in visitation of those religious Houses, which by his meanes were founded, [1] so hee lived in the whole one hundred twentie two yeares, and lyeth buried in Downe.
CAP. XIII.
Of Saint Patrickes Purgatory.
Every History of Ireland that I have seene, maketh one severall title De mirabilibus Hiberniæ, and therein with long processe treateth of severall Hands, some
- ↑ An. Dom, 492.
