11. After these things, having heard the renown of the holiness and
sound doctrine of Saint Finnianus of Cluayn Hyrart, he desired to
hasten to him as to a living fountain, and asked of his mother a cow,
to yield him the food necessary to sustain life. When his mother
refused his request, he went to the kine of his mother, trusting in
his God, and blessed one of them in the name of God; and the cow, by
the favour of God, mindful of the blessing of the man of God, followed
him with her calf till he had arrived at the church of the man of God
Fynnianus. When the man of God arrived at the place of his desire, he
drew a dividing-line with his rod between the cow and the calf, in
the name of Him who set a boundary to the waters that they should not
transgress their limit, and this they did not cross till they were
permitted. The milk of that cow was sufficient for twelve men every
day.