An angel of the Lord always used to come to greet Saint Fintán twice a week, namely on Sundays and on Thursdays. It happened that on a certain Thursday the angel did not come to him, until he arrived on Sunday. Fintán said to him:
‘Tell me what is my offence, on account of which you did not come on the usual day’.
The angel replied:
‘It is not on account of a failure of yours that I did not come, but in these days a most beloved guest entered into heaven, namely Lugaid moccu Óche of Cluain Ferta, at whose arrival all the angels were overcome with much exultation and rejoicing [and] they did not come to greet the saints of Ireland this week’.
Fintán said to him:
‘It clearly appears that he alone truthfully fulfilled the commandments of God. Go, therefore, and come back to me again with an answer, so that I may know why it was more dear to rejoice at the arrival of Lugaid than to come to greet me.’
The angel came to him, saying: ‘Because no man's face blushed before Lugaid and there will be no fewer monachi of his in heaven than of yours. But you correct your monks by shaming’.
Then Fintán said: ‘I know what I should do ***
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you will not go into exile; but on Thursday night a messenger will come to you from God, so that the joy in heaven at the arrival of Lugaid will not be greater than at your arrival on the day of your death’.
That night, therefore,