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Life of Saint Fintán, alias Munnu, abbot of Tech Munnu (Taghmon, Co. Wexford) (Author: [unknown])
Section 7
After this Fintán set off to the island of Iona,
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to become a monk with Colum Cille, but before his arrival Columba passed away to Heaven. However, he left his instructions with Baíthéne, saying:
‘After my death a fair and curly-headed, red-cheeked man shall come from Ireland, Fintán, the son of Tulchán, whom I have seen more frequently in Heaven than on Earth. He himself shall come here to become a monk, and you should not receive him. And he shall not be happy with this, for that man is harsh by nature. But you shall tell him that he himself shall be an abbot and the head of a community, and he shall not be subordinate to anyone. He shall go to the south of Leinster, near the sea, for his honour and resurrection are there. And although I have a greater share of the earth, nevertheless my love and power are not greater with God than his’.