AT another time a stranger from Hibernia came to the saint and remained with him for some months in the Iouan island (Hy, now Iona). The blessed man one day said to him: ‘One of the clerics of thy province, whose name I do not yet know, is being carried to heaven by the angels at this moment.’ Then the brother, upon hearing this, began to search within himself regarding the province of the Anterii (Airthir), which is called in Scotic Indairthir (East Oriel, in Ulster), and also about the name of that blessed man, and in due course thus expressed himself, saying: ‘I know a soldier of Jesus Christ, named Diormit, who built a small monastery in the same district where I dwelt.’ The saint said to him, ‘He of whom thou speakest is the very person who hath been carried into Paradise by the angels of God.’ But this fact must be very carefully noted, that our venerable man was most careful to conceal from the knowledge of men many mysterious secrets which were concealed from others, but revealed to him by God, and this he did for two reasons, as he one day hinted to a few of the brethren; first, that he might avoid vain-glory, and secondly that he might not by the fame of his revelations being spread abroad, attract, to make inquiries at him, innumerable crowds who were anxious to ask some questions regarding themselves.