Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-02-13
VOLUME VIII. NO.7.

beasts, that none could ever since breed or live
there and that even the very wood has a virtue
against poison, $50 that it is reported of kings
college, Cambridge, that being built of Irish
wood, no spider doth ever come near it."
Jocelin, a Cistercian monk of Furnes.in the
twelfth century, wrote "The Life and Acts st.
Patrick" wherein he relates many extraordna.
ry particulars, of which the few that follow are
specimens: St. Patrick when child, IN winter
time brought home some pieces Office his nurse
told him he had better have brought home wood,
whereupon he heaped ;agcther the ice, and
prayde, and the ice Immediately became bon.
fire. After this his fostersather died, and to re-
lieve his nurses Distress St Patrick prayed,
signed him with the sign of the cross, and so
restored him to life. Then by the same sign he
freed COW from an evil spirit recovered FIVE
COWS she had wounded; and, by the same
means, when his nurse was i'll and longed for
honey, he Immediately changed water into the
best honey"
AT another time, when she was commanded
to clean out some filthy stables, St. Patrick
prayed and they were cleaned without hands,
Then 81. Patrick himself was carried into slave
ry, and sold for kettle, but the kettle being
placed on the fire, the hotter the fire burned the
colder became the kettle whereupon the seller
of st. Patrick returned the kettle, took St. Pat.
rick back and the vessel was restored to iii won.
ted power of boiling.
st. Patrick desired 10 eat meat, obtained some
pork, and having concealed it for a convenient
season, presently he saw man with eyes before
ard eyes behind, and asked him why he was so
formed, the seer answered, am the servant Of
God; with the eyes in my forheaG see things
open to view, with my eyes behind see monk
hiding fesh-meat in vessel to satisfy his appe-
tte privately" Then the seer vanished St.
Patrick repented, prayed for pardon, besought
for sign that he had it, was told by an angel
to put the pork into water, did as the angel bid
him, and the pork Immediately became fishes"
Having journeyed into Britain he saw leper
whom mariners would not carry in their ship,
whereon st. Patrick took stone altar consecrs.
ted by the pope, cast it into the sea, caused the
leper to sit on it and the eper Immediately set
sail on a stone, kept company with the ship all
the voyage, and got into port with her at the
same time.
st Patick TetpEninga ga ta tE1Glaea ora sHTss IN he
form Of globe surrounding the whole island,
when he raised his sacred right hand, made the
sign of the cross, and, unhurt and unterrifed,
passed he over" Some fishermen i'll the coun.
ty of Leinester. drawing their nets from the riv.
loaded with fish, St Patrick asked them fol
some they refused him; he cursed them and
the river: and from that day the river never
produced fish, Once when the chief king o
Ireland ordered his subjects to prevent St. Pat
rick from landing they set fierce dog at him
whereupon the dog stiAened like a stone! then
gigantic man brandished his sword at thu
saint, the man stifiened likewise, but rcpentcd
and St. Patrick unstifened him and baptiset
him.
An Old man would not believe ST.. Patrick
preaching. St. Patrick asked him whether h
, would be persuaded by a miracle; the old ma
said he would; then St. Patrick prayed, laid hi
, hand on him, "and immediately the old man be
came beautiful and young, aud flourished agar
}. as in early youth" and was so made to believ,
n Having converted Mochna, vrtuous swine
j., herd, while they were conversing together,
8 staff from heaven fell between them, which
i Patrick gave to Mochna for pastoral staff, col
e secrated him bishop of Edrum, and the staff
v in that church still preserved, and called the q
n ing staff
t. St. Patricks nephew, s. Lumanus, being d
is sirous oftaking journey by sea when wind
tide were against him, he hoisted the sails trus
4 ed in the merits Of 81, Patrick, and " O, mirac
till then unheard and unknown the ship, wit
out any pilot, sailed against wind and stream
te and he made prosperous vovoaGse. At anoth
a. time st. Patrick seeing hundred men unable
stir large stone, he, alone raised it up a
Pleced 1t where it was wanted. He was acct
toned to stop and erect cross at the head-sto
burial place one day, coming to the graves
two men newly buried and observing that o
of the graves only had cross over it, he sto
ped his chariot and speaking to the dead m
below, asked him what religion he had bee
the dead man answered pagan, St. Patrick
quired why then a cross was put over hun,
M dead pagan replied, he who is buried near I
was christian, and one of your faith conf
hithcr placed the cross at my head the sa
stepped out ofhis chariot, rectlfed the mista
nv and went his way.
so One FoyIge, an idolator, strangIed the dri,
nd Of st. Patrlck's chariot, in his seat, wheref,
ion the saint cast his holy curse" at Foylge, W
pierced thereby, fell dead into hell but the d
oil il entering the dead body, walked about in
and seemed as if he were Foylge himself,
one day st. Patrick called at the dead ma
inc house, and asking the family where Foylge v
III they answered he was at home, when the sa
led told them of Foylge's death, and that Satan /
ry, entered into his corpse and occupied it as
on own proper vessel" then ST. Patrick gave not
lp- to the devil to leave his lodgings in Foylg
- body, which he did Immediately, and Fowl
'ed was buried, Preaching on journey, to II, {
ON men, che first fed them all with spiritual foo
led then commanding COW to be KILLED, with t
he stags. and couple Of bOars, the people ate
nn' bundanty' the remnants were gathered up; ,
lde thus with the flesh Of five animals, did st P
The rick pleneOusly feed IA 900 men," Once wi
The he was preaching, by way ofa strong argume
er, he raised to life nineteen dead men, one
red whom had heep h,riad Ccr tor, ,,oos A.