It is true that as there are good as well as bad Christians in her fold, there are also superstitious as well as believing Christians; but the Church is not answerable for the sins of her children.

She is answerable for the doctrine which she teaches; and no one can point to any place or time in which the Church taught such superstitions.
Secondly, the writers of history are obliged to relate facts as they are.

The Franciscan fathers do this, and had they not done it carefully, and with an amount of labour which few indeed have equalled, their admirable Annals would have been utterly useless.

They do mention the pagan opinion that it was "the sun and wind that killed him [Laeghaire], because he had violated them;" but they do not say that they believed this pagan superstition, and no one could infer it who read the passage with ordinary candour.
It is probable that Oilioll Molt, who succeeded King Laeghaire, A.D.
459, lived and died a pagan.

He was slain, after a reign of twenty years, by Laeghaire's son, Lughaidh, who reigned next.