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Life of St Columba
St Adamnán of Iona, tr. Reeves, 1874
Book 1, Prophecy of St. Columba Regarding the Sign of the Same Man’s Death
COLCA, however, returned to the saint, and remained with him for some days, and then asking about the end of his own days, received this answer from the saint: — “In thine own beloved country thou shalt be head of a church for many years, and when at any time thou happenest to see thy butler making merry with a company of his friends at supper, and twirling the ladle round in the strainer, know that then in a short time thou shalt die.” What more need I say? This same prophecy of the blessed man was exactly fulfilled, as it was foretold to Colca.