A Book of Saints and Wonders Author:Gregory Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'Before going with angels to the battle let us go running to the church; to remember the Lordisbetterthananypoem.VictoriousBrigit did not love the world.' HER CA... more »RE FOR On the day of the battle LEINSTER of Almhuin, Brigit was seenoverthe men of Leinster,and Columcille was seen over the Ua Neill; and it was the men of Leinster won that battle. And a long time after that again, when Strongbow that had brought great trouble into Ireland and that was promised the kingdom of Leinster was near his end, he cried out from his bed that he saw Brigit of the Gael, and that it was sheherself wasbringinghimto his death. SHE REMEMBERS ButifBrigitbelonged THE POOR to the east, it is not in the west she is forgotten, and the people of Burren and of Corcomruadh and Kinvara go every year to her blessed well that is near the sea, praying and remembering her. And in that well there is a little fish that isseen every seven years, and whoever sees thatfish is cured of every disease. And there is a woman living yet that is poor and old and that saw that blessed fish, and this is the way she tells the story: 'I had a pearl in my eye one time, and I went to Saint Brigit's well on the cliffs. Scores of people there were in it, looking for cures, and some got them and some did not get them. And I went down the four steps to the well and I was looking into it, and I saw a little fish no longer than your finger coming from a stone under the water. Three spots it had on the one side and three on the other side, red spots and a little green with the red, and it was very civil coming hither to me and very pleasant wagging its tail. And it stopped andlookedupatme and gave three wags of its back, and walked off again and went in under the stone. 'And I said to a woman that was near me that I saw the little...« less