1. The blessed and venerable abbot Queranus was born of a noble and
religious stock of the Scots, of a father Beoid, that is Boeus, by
name, who was a cartwright, and of a mother Darerca; of these many
saints were born. This man of God was prophesied of by Saint Patrick,
fifty years before his birth. Moreover when his mother, sitting in
a carriage one day, passed near the house of a certain wizard, the
wizard, hearing the noise of the carriage said in prophecy, "The
carriage soundeth under a king." And when his folk went in surprise to
see the truth of the matter, and beheld no one but the wife of Boeus
in the carriage, they said in mockery, "Lo, the wife of Beoit sitteth
in the carriage." To whom the wizard said, "Not of her do I speak, but
of the son whom she hath in her womb, who shall be a mighty king; and
as the sun blazeth in mid-day, so shall he with miracles shine and
illumine this island." After this, as his father was being burdened
under the taxes of Anmereus, that is Anmirech, leaving his native
region he departed into the territory of the Conactei; and there in
the plain of Ay he begat his blessed son Queranus, who was baptized
and instructed by a certain holy man, Dermicius by name. And the holy
boy, in manners beyond his years, worked many wonders.