James O'Leary, The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick… (1874)
“ Nine Evil-doers are consumed by Fire from Heaven, and a Fountain is produced out of the Earth.And nine evil-doers contriving the death of Patrick, the herald of life, pretended to be monks and ministers of righteousness; and they put on them white cowls, that the easier might they destroy the saint, who was clothed in the same habit. And herein did they imitate their preceptor, Satan, the angel of darkness, who sometimes transfigureth himself into an angel of light, and unto whom in their arts and in their acts they paid obedience. ”
