_The Sentence prophetically declared._
A certain man named Dengo, who was wicked and perverse, and powerful in
iniquity, prevented the saint from building a church in a convenient
place; to whom the saint attesting his Judge, nay, prophesying, said,
"In a short time shall thine house be destroyed, and thy substance
wasted away; and thy sons that issue from thine impious loins shall of
the greater part defile themselves by mutual fratricide; while the
remnant of them shall never attain unto dignity or power, but shall be
strangers and wanderers on the earth." And the prophecy of Saint
Patrick was proved by the subsequent misery visited on the man and on
his children.