" So theycollected around them a few villains and began plundering and destroyingthe churches in the neighborhood and thus injuring half the churchbuildings in the country. At last they resolved to visit also the churchof Clothar, to destroy it, and to kill if necessary their mother's father,who was the leading layman of the parish. When they came to the church,they found the old man on the green in front of it, distributing meat anddrink to his tenants and the people of the parish. Seeing this, theypostponed their plans until after dark and in the meantime went home withtheir grandfather, to spend the night at his house. They went to rest, andthe eldest, Lochan, had a terrible dream in which he saw first the joys ofheaven and then the terrors of future punishment, and then he awoke indismay. Waking his brothers, he told them his dream, and that he now sawthat they had been serving evil masters and making war upon a good one.Such was his bitterness of remorse that he converted them to his views,and they agreed to go to their grandfather in the morning, renounce theirsinful ways and ask his pardon.This they did, and he advised them to go to a celebrated saint, Finnen ofClonard, and take him as their spiritual guide. Laying aside their armorand weapons, they went to Clonard, where all the people, dreading them andknowing their wickedness, fled for their lives, except the saint himself,who came forward to meet them.
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