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Life of St Columba
St Adamnán of Iona, tr. Reeves, 1874
Book 2, Of the Cures of Various Diseases Which Took Place in the Ridge of Ceate…
Of the Cures of various Diseases which took place in the Ridge of Ceate (Druimceatt)
WE have been told by well-informed persons that this man of admirable life, by invoking the name of Christ, healed the disorders of various sick persons in the course of that short time which he spent at the Ridge of Ceate (Druimceatt), when attend ing there the meeting of the kings. For either by his merely stretching out his holy hand, or by the sprinkling of the sick with the water blessed by him, or by their touching even the hem of his cloak, or by their receiving his blessing on any thing, as, for instance, on bread or salt, and dipping it in water, they who believed recovered perfect health.