Baring-Gould’s sources: Irish Martyrologies. Authorities: — A life in Latin many centuries later.] Dirath, bishop of Ferns, who died in 691, was succeeded by S. Moling, or Mullen, as he is commonly called, but who also obtained the name of Dayrchell. He was a native of Hykinselagh in Leinster, and his genealogy has been traced to the royal house of that province. By some accounts he was a disciple of S. Maidoc of Ferns, but if so, it must have been when he was very young, for S. Maidoc died, at latest, in 632. Having embraced the monastic life, he founded the monastery of Teghmoling, now S. Mullen’s, near the Barrow, in the county of Carlow. He governed this establishment for many years, part of which he is stated to have spent at Glendalough, until he was raised to the see of Ferns in 691. In the year 693 he induced Finnacta, monarch of Ireland, to exempt the province of Leinster from the tribute of oxen with which it had been burdened for a very long period. He died on June 17th, in the year 697.

As is usual with the lives of the Irish Saints, this is clogged with many grossly absurd stories which have arisen from the love of humour and of the marvellous combined in the Irish peasantry. One story will be enough. One summer’s day as S. Moling sat reading, a fly alighted on his book. Next instant a swallow swooped down and seized the fly. Immediately S. Moling’ s cat bounded on the bird and ate it. 44 Fie, puss !” said the saint, and 44 Fie, O bird I” then the cat threw up the swallow, and the swallow ejected the fly, and fly and bird were none the worse for their temporary imprisonment.

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