This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...to grant. The Saint then spoke to him as follows: --" Know, 0 Brochan know, that if you refuse to set this captive free, as I desire you, you shall die before I return from this province." Having said this in presence of Brude, the king, he departed from the royal palace and proceeded to the river Nesa ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...to grant. The Saint then spoke to him as follows: --" Know, 0 Brochan know, that if you refuse to set this captive free, as I desire you, you shall die before I return from this province." Having said this in presence of Brude, the king, he departed from the royal palace and proceeded to the river Nesa, from which he took a white pebble, and showing it to his companions said to them: --" Behold this white pebble by which God will effect the cure of many diseases." Having thus spoken, he added, Brochan is punished grievously at this moment, for an angel sent from heaven striking him severely, has broken in pieces the glass cup which he held in his hand, and from which he was in the act of drinking, and he himself is left half dead. Let us await here for a short time, two of the king's messengers who have been sent after us in haste, to request us return quickly and relieve the dying Brochan, who, now that be is thus terribly punished, consents to set his captive free. Whilst the saint was yet speaking, behold, there arrived, as he had predicted, two horsemen who were sent by the king, and who related all that had occurred according to the prediction of the saint--the breaking of the drinking goblet--the punishment of the druid and his willingness to set his captive at liberty; they then added, the king and his councillors have sent us to you to request that you would cure his foster father Brochan, who lies in a dying state. Having heard these words of the messengers, Saint Columba sent two of his companions to the king with the pebble which he had blessed, and said to them: "If Brochan shall first promise to free his captive, immerse this little stone in water, and let him drink from it, but if he shall refuse to liberate her, he will that...
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