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 1    1|      lips of my predecessor, the Abbot Failbe, who solemnly declared
 2    1|        same vision to Segine the abbot.~ ~But another fact must
 3    1|   CHAPTER II.~ Of St. Finten the Abbot, son of Tailchan.~ ~ST.
 4    1|         me I will take him as my abbot." Then kissing the forementioned
 5    1|        being ordered by the holy abbot to rise and be seated, he
 6    1|         to be admitted. The holy abbot, hearing these things from
 7    1|          immediately replied the abbot, "for I would indeed prefer
 8    1|    should become the monk of any abbot, for he has long since been
 9    1|      been chosen of God to be an abbot of monks and a leader of
10    1|       with enthusiasm, under the abbot Alither; then advancing
11    1|          his side, lest the holy abbot, St. Columba, should be
12    1|         as written above, to the abbot Segine, in the attentive
13    1|      arrival of St Cainnech, the Abbot, who had been previously
14    1|         away from his own proper abbot without obtaining his consent."~ ~
15    1|         day in summer he and the Abbot Comgell sat down not far
16    1|          water, he thus spoke to Abbot Comgell, who was sitting
17    2| testimony in the presence of the Abbot Segine and the other fathers.~ ~
18    2|       but for that holy man, the Abbot Cainnech, to pray for you
19    3|         prayers the monks of the Abbot Comgell, who are just now
20    3|       story from the lips of the abbot Virgnous, his own uncle,
21    3|       God our holy and venerable abbot must have been deemed worthy,