School: Rahavanaig

Location:
Rahavanig, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire de Stac
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0400, Page 065

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  1. At the time the soldiers were looking for Our Lord to kill Him, He had to hide from them. One day he walked over a field where a man was sowing wheat and drops of Our Saviour's Blood fell on it, and by a miracle the wheat sprang up all in one night and was ready for reaping next morning. On the next day the soldiers came by, the same way, on the search for him.
    There was a robin in a bush in the wheat field, and it saw the soldiers coming. It lay upon every drop of Blood that marked Our Saviour's track and didn't leave a trace of it for the soldiers to follow - which is the reason that from that day to this the robin has a red breast. The captain of the soldiers asked the robin if it had seen a man passing that way
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máighréad Ní Chearbhaill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry