School: St Columb's Moville
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hamilton Stewart
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 361
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- (continued from previous page)by an entire family from Glenburney.
These had observed the boat coming ashore and knowing it to be the Saint had hurried to obtain his blessing.
They were not the only ones who had seen the landing of the Red-Dewy for soon a number of monks from Cooley arrived and begged the Saint to accompany them to their church at Cooley which they wished him to name and bless.
He have the name St. Finian to the church and when he had blessed it, returned at once to his boat, by this time the skin bottles had been filled with the delicious water of the stream.
Then the saint read the Psalm, :-
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God, etc.
The psalm being ended, he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hamilton Stewart
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
