_The Admirable Contemplations of the Saint._
As Saint Patrick, the preacher of truth, while yet living in the flesh,
recalled and incited by his example and conversation many living men,
who yet were dead, unto the true life, so did he by his prayers bring
many who were buried unto the land of the living. For divers which
were deceased, he by his powerful prayers snatched from the depths of
eternal punishment, and from the roaring lions which were prepared for
their food, and bringing them to the expiatory place, restored them
unto salvation. And he, being often made the contemplator of the
divine mysteries, beheld the heavens opened, and the Lord Jesus
standing in the middle of the multitude of angels; and this, while he
offered the holy immolation of the Son of God, and devoutly sang the
Apocalypse of John, did Patrick merit to behold. For while in his
meditations he admired these admirable visions, unto the sight of their
similitude was he lifted up in the Lord. And the angel Victor, so
often before named, thrice in each week appeared unto him, and
comforted and consoled him with mutual colloquy.