A Story
27th May 1938.
In the olden times there was a holy little man. One day he stood at his door and he said it was a very bad day and our Lord put a branch in his hand and He told him to go and stand in a river until that would blossom in his hand.
There was a thief who had stolen twelve cattle and he ordered the little man to get up out of the river and to let the cattle pass.
The little man said that the Lord had commanded him not to leave the river until that branch would blossom.
The thief said, come up out of that, it's I that should be there instead of you.
The man came up out of the river and the thief went down and took the branch. The moment he took it in his hand, it blossomed.
He let the cattle go then and said that it was he that was sinning instead of the little man.
“INFORMANT: Mary McDonnell, Age 77, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo”