_Legend of a Saint and Crozier_ (Vol. ii., p. 267.)--The incident is
related of St. Patrick and one of the kings of Cashel, and formed the
subject of the first picture exhibited by James Barry. In the {469}
_Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties_, London, 1831, (art. Barry, p.
159.) it is stated that:
"The picture was painted in his twentieth or twenty-first year, on the
baptism by St. Patrick of one of the kings of Cashel, who stands
unmoved while the ceremony is performed, amidst a crowd of wondering
spectators; although the saint, in setting down his crosier, has,
without perceiving it, struck its iron point through the royal foot."