And they said to me, 'Come, we receive thee on trust.

Be our friend, just as it may be agreeable to you.' We then set sail, and after three days reached land." The two Breviaries of Rheims and Fiacc's Hymn agree in stating that the men with whom Patrick embarked were merchants from Gaul, and that they landed in a place called Treguir, in Brittany, some distance from his native place.

Their charity, however, was amply repaid.

Travelling through a desert country, they had surely perished with hunger, had not the prayers of the saint obtained them a miraculous supply of food.
It is said that St.Patrick suffered a second captivity, which, however, only lasted sixty days; but of this little is known.

Neither is the precise time certain, with respect to these captivities, at which the events occurred which we are about to relate.