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Sabbath, which means rest, and this day is indeed a Sabbath to me; for 
it is the last day of my present laborious life, and in it I rest after the 
fatigues of my labours, and this night at midsummer, which commenceth 
the solemn Lord’s Day, I shall according to the saying of Scripture, go 
the way of our fathers. For, already my Lord Jesus Christ deigneth to 
invite me, and to Him I say in the middle of this night shall I depart at 
His invitation, for so it hath been revealed to me by the Lord Himself.” 
The attendant hearing those sad words began to weep bitterly, and the 
Saint endeavoured to console him as well as he could. Then leaving this 
spot, he ascended the hill that overlooketh the Monastery, and stood 
for some little time on its summit, and as he stood there with both hands 
uplifted, he blessed his monastery, saying: ‘Small and mean though 
this place is, it shall be held in great and unusual honour, not only by 
Scottish kings and people, but also by the rulers of foreign and bar- 
barous nations and by their subjects. The saints also of other Churches 
shall regard it with no common reverence. After those words he 
descended the hill, and having returned to his Monastery sat in his 
hut, transcribing the Psalter, and coming to the verse of the 33rd Psalm, 
(English version 34th Psalm), where it is written: They that seek the 
Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good. ‘Here, said he, 
‘at the end of this page I must stop, and what follows let Baithue 
write. Then as soon as the bell tolled at midnight, he rose hastily and 
went to the Church, and running more quickly than the rest he entered 
in alone, and knelt down in prayer beside the altar. At the same moment 
his attendant Diormit, who more closely followed him, saw from a 
distance that the whole interior of the Church was filled with a heavenly 
light in the direction of the Saint, and as he drew near to the door, the 
-same light he had seen, and which was also seen by a few more of the 
brethren standing at a distance, quickly disappeared. Diormit, there- 
fore, entering the Church cried out in a loud voice, ‘Where art thou 
Father ?’ and feeling his way in the darkness, as the brethren had not 
yet brought in the lights, he found the Saint lying before the altar, and 
raising him up a little, he sat down beside him and laid his holy head in 
his bosom. Meanwhile, the rest of the monks ran in hastily in a body 
with their lights, and beholding their dying father burst into lamentations, 
and the Saint as we have been told by some who were present, even 
before his soul departed, opened wide his eyes and looked round him 
from side to side with a countenance full of wonderful joy and gladness, 
no doubt seeing the holy angels coming to meet him. Diormit then 
raised the holy right hand of the Saint that he might bless his assembled 
monks, and the venerable Father himself moved his right hand at the 
same time as well as he was able, that as he could not in words while his 
