XLI. HOW CIARAN WENT FROM INIS AINGHIN TO CLONMACNOIS

17. At length, when some time had passed, a holy man by name

Dompnanus, of Mumonia by race, came to visit the man of God. When

Saint Keranus enquired of him the cause of his coming, he replied

that he wished to have a place in which he could serve the Lord in

security. But Saint Keranus, seeking not his own, but the things of

Jesus Christ, said, "Here," said he, "dwell thou, and I with God's

guidance shall seek a place of habitation elsewhere." Finally, the

sacred community accompanying him, he made his way to the place

foreshown him of God, in which, when the famous and renowned monastery

which is to-day called the city of Cluayn was built, he himself

illuminated the world, like the sun, with the light of famous

miracles.

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