[651] Probably Dermot MacMurrough, who became king of Leinster in 1126, and died in 1171. He was driven out of his kingdom in 1166, and then invited the Anglo-Normans to come to his aid. The result was the conquest of Ireland. His character merits the description which St. Bernard gives of it.
[652] Rom. xvi. 18.
[653] The first of three healings of paralysis.
[654] John iv. 50.
[655] Gen. ii. 21.
[656] Mark viii. 3.
[657] Acts xiii. 11, etc.
[658] Mark vii. 34.
[659] Cp. Acts xii. 9.
[660] Gen. xlv. 26 (vg.).