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 1    1|       some hostile inroad the poor people with their wives
 2    1|     told him the words of the poor wretch. The saint, on hearing
 3    1|    with his mother." Then the poor wretch, casting himself
 4    1|      not seem so to me, but a poor wretched creature, who on
 5    1|   words? How could I ask that poor man to sing a song of joy,
 6    1| consoled him, saying, "Go, my poor man, go; thy whole family
 7    1|      unjust spoils." When the poor man heard these words he
 8    1|        for his charity to the poor and his munificence." Then
 9    2|       told the saint that the poor man was very sorry on account
10    2|     and delivered over to the poor man, who was called Findchan,
11    2|       THIS Nesan, though very poor, joyfully received on one
12    2|   Columban, who was then very poor, and, as he had done before
13    2|      blessing him, from being poor to become very rich. Now,
14    2|    came to St. Columba a very poor peasant, who lived in the
15    2|        and then said to him, "Poor man, take a branch from
16    2|       the Lord on behalf of a poor woman in Hibernia, who at
17    2|     touched with pity for the poor woman, hastened to the church,
18    2|       seasonable help to this poor woman, and hath mercifully
19    2|      saint had predicted, the poor woman, by invoking his name,
20    3|      his trade in alms to the poor."~ ~
21    3|    the soul of her husband, a poor and holy man, and together