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112. There is a stone in Torach called 'the hand-stone' and that was Columb cille's pillow as long as he was in that place. It was thus he used to hold it, with his hands around it upon his knee while he sat and rested his forehead upon it. And other sleep than what he slept so he used not to do. And the print of his fingers is in it from that day to this. And it performs a great many wonders and miracles, and the water in which it is steeped relieves women in labour immediately how little soever they might drink of it.

113. Another time C. c. was in that same island which is called Torach, and the fame of his wisdom and knowledge and faith and piety went over the whole world; and the holy children of the king of India loved him though absent on account of his tidings, viz. six sons and one daughter they were. And they decided to visit him to receive a rule and good example from him and to stay a season with him for the edification of their lives. Thereupon they took ship and their tidings are not told until they came to land at the western end of Torach in the place which is called 'the Port of the seven' to-day. And after landing they died of weariness of the sea and the ocean. That was shown to C. c. and he went over them crying and lamenting exceedingly on their account, and he told everybody that they were the children of the king of India. Then he knelt down and raised his eyes and he prayed Jesus Christ sweetly and earnestly to revive them for him. When C. c. had finished that prayer the children of the king of India arose in the presence of everybody, as people who had been asleep, or as people who