_The Saint beholdeth a Vision of Angels, and cureth Sixteen Lepers._
When the lamp of the daily light was extinguished in the shades of
nocturnal darkness, the man of God beheld in a vision of the night
angels measuring the form and the extent of the city which was to be
builded in that high place, and one of the angels enjoined him, that on
the morrow he should go unto the fountain near Ardmachia, which is now
called Tobar Patraic, that is, the Fountain of Patrick; and there he
should heal in the name of the Lord sixteen lepers, who were come
thither from many places to experience the mercy of the Lord, and to
receive his faith. And Patrick obeyed the voice of the angel; and
early in the morning he found those men, and by his preaching he
converted them unto the faith, and being converted, he baptized them in
that fountain, and when baptized, he purified them from the leprous
taint of either man. And this miracle when published abroad, was
accounted a fair presage and a present sanction of the future city.
And the angel, at the prayers of Patrick, removed far from thence an
exceeding huge stone which lay in the wayside, and which could not be
raised by the labor or the ingenuity of man; lest it should be an
hindrance to passengers approaching the city.