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" IS. On a certain day, when one of the brethren was working outside 

 the island, to the south, he suddenly fell dead. When this was told to 

 Colum, he said to the brethren, ' Go ye to him and say to him, In the name 

 of Jesus Christ, Colum saith unto thee. Arise!' When the brethren had said 

 this, he rose immediately from death as from sleep, and came in perfect health 

 with the brethren to the island. 



" 19. But on another day, when holy Colum was voyaging from Inis 

 Cealtra on Loch Derg with his pupils, Nadchaoimhe and Fintan maccu 

 Echdach, he saw that place where now is Tir da Glas [Terryglass] . Then 

 Colum arose in the boat and sighing he said, ' Oh that in yonder place were 

 my resurrection ! ' Which was fulfilled, for afterwards he was buried in that 

 place by Nadchaoimhe his pupil. 



" 20. After this, holy Colum, not enduring the vexations of men visiting 

 him, and shunning earthly pomps, left Inis Cealtra for an island of that sea 

 which is called Luimnech, and there held Inis Eii'c ..." In this new 

 retreat, which was less accessible from the shore, and where he was less likely 

 to be troubled by the molestiae hominum, frequentaiitium, we may leave him, 

 as Inis Cealtra does not again appear in his life. 



After his death, however, we read that he revisited the island ; for the 

 faithful Nadchaoimhe, desirous of fulfilling the wish his master has expressed 

 regarding his burial-place, and fearing lest the Ui Neill, in whose territory he 

 had died, would not allow the body of the holy man to be removed, smuggled 

 it out concealed in a waggon of corn, and after some adventures bore it to 



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Inis Cealtra,. where it lay buried for seven years, after which it was borne to 

 Tir da Glas for final sepulture. At each translation of the holy relics, we 

 are told, the surface of Loch Derg was miraculously illuminated for three 

 days and three nights. This story of the burial of Colum is referred to 

 -in the glosses to the Feilire Oengusso (E.I.A. edition, p. 182), and 

 in the Martyrology of Donegal. Here is what the latter compilation says of 

 Colum : " Colum of Tir da Glas, son of Ninnidh, of the sept of Cathaoir Mor, 

 king of Ireland, who is of the sept of Labhraidh Lore, son of Ugoine Mor, etc., 

 and Mincloth, sister of Caemell, daughter of Ceannfhionnan, son of Ceis, son 

 of Lughar, his mother. Oenghus calls him Colum, son of Criomthann, and 

 other authors call him maccu Cremhthannain. It was he gave the sacrifice to 

 Findian of Cluain Iraird, and he was a disciple of Findian. Mochaoimhe of 

 Tir da Glas and Odhran took his relics to Inis Cealtra, as Ciarau of Saighir 

 prophesied in his own Life, chap, ti ; and as Mochaomhog prophesied when he 

 was baptizing Odhrdn.' 



' Mart. Don., Dec. 13, ed. Todd and Reevea, p. 335. 



