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The Life of St Féchín of Fore (Author: [unknown])

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That is the hour and time at which the angel appeared to Féchín in his sleep and said to him: ‘The inhabitants of the island named Imaid23, and the rest of the people of that country, are in darkness as to the divine law; and get thee to preach to them. For God hath granted to thee their tribute and their due, and it is thou who shall be unto them a lord and counsellor and bush of protection and judge of doom.’ At the angel's command Féchín goes into the west of Connaught to Imaid, and he blessed it, and built a cloister therein, and brought those tribes under a yoke of belief and piety, and baptised them in a well which brake forth for him from the ground through the miracles of God and the powers of


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Féchín. And God's name and Féchín's were magnified therein. And (a poet) uttered the lay:
Féchín came into his own country, etc.