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According to the Life and Acts of Saint Patrick ( chapter 138 ), commissioned by Sir John de Courcy and written by Jocelyn of Furness ( c. 1185 AD ), St. Patrick took his staff, known as the staff of Jesus, or Bacall Iosa, and struck the shield of Prince Conall, rendering a sign of the Cross on it, “ et mox cum baculo suo, qui baculus Jesu dicebatur Crucis signum ejus scuto impressit, asserens neminem de stirpe ejus in bello vincendum qui signum illud ”, and thus indicating that that he and his offspring would henceforth be victorious in battle if they followed that sign This legend is also described several centuries later in the Lebhar Inghine i Dhomhnaill.
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