Previous to his expulsion (from Rahen) Mochuda visited the place where (later) he built Lismore and he heard the voice of persons reading at Rahen, wherefore he said to his followers:  “I know that this is the place where God will permit us to build our monastery.”  This prophecy was subsequently verified.

On a certain occasion Columcille came to Rahen where Mochuda was and asked him:—­“Is this place in which you now are dear to you?” “It is, indeed,” answered Mochuda.  Columcille said:  “Let not what I say to you trouble you—­this will not be the place of your resurrection, for the king of Erin and his family will grow jealous of you owing to machinations of some of the Irish clergy, and they shall eventually drive you hence.”  Mochuda questioned Columcille who had a true prophetic gift—­“In what other place then will my resurrection be?” Columcille told him—­“The place where from the summit of Slieve Gua you saw the host of angels building a chair of silver with a statue of gold therein on the bank of the Nemh—­there will your resurrection be, and the chair of silver is your church in the midst of them [,and you are truly the golden statue in its midst].”  Mochuda believing what he heard thanked and glorified God.

As Mochuda on another day was at Rahen there came to him a priest and monk of his own community from the northern part of Munster; he made a reverence as was the custom of the monks, in Mochuda’s presence and said to him, “Father, I have complied with all your commands and the precepts of God from the day I left Rahen till now—­except this—­that, without your permission, I have taken my brother from the secular life.”  “Verily I say to you,” answered Mochuda, “if you were to go to the top of a high hill and to shout as loudly as you could and were to bring to me all who heard the cry I should not refuse the habit of religion to one of them.”  Hearing these words all realised the character and extent of Mochuda’s charity and returned thanks to God for it.

On a certain day about vesper time, because of the holiness of the hour, Mochuda said to his monks:—­“We shall not eat to-day till each one of you has made his confession,” for he knew that some one of them had ill will in his heart against another.  All the brethren thereupon confessed to him.  One of them in the course of his confession stated:  “I love not your miller and the cause of my lack of charity towards him is this, that when I come to the mill he will not lift the loads off the horses and he will neither help me to fill the meal sacks nor to load them on the horse when filled.  And not this alone but he does everything that is disagreeable to me; moreover I cannot tell, but God knows, why he so acts.  Often I have thought of striking him or even beating him to death.”  Mochuda replied, “Brother dear, the prophet says—­’Declina a malo et fac bonum’ [Psalm 36(37):27].  Avoid evil and do good.  Following this precept let you act kindly towards the miller and that charity