There is a small square reliquary over the head of our divine Lord, covered with a crystal, which probably contained a piece of the holy cross.

The smaller figures in relief are, Columba, Brigid, and Patrick; those in the second compartment, the Apostles James, Peter, and Paul; in the third, the Archangel Michael, and the Virgin and Child; in the fourth compartment a bishop presents a _cumdach_, or cover, to an ecclesiastic.

This, probably, has a historical relation to the reliquary itself.
One prayer uttered by St.Patrick has been singularly fulfilled.

"May my Lord grant," he exclaims, "that I may never lose His people, which He has acquired in the ends of the earth!" From hill and dale, from camp and cottage, from plebeian and noble, there rang out a grand "Amen." The strain was caught by Secundinus and Benignus, by Columba and Columbanus, by Brigid and Brendan.

It floated away from Lindisfarne and Iona, to Iceland and Tarentum.