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- Saint Comgall (c. 510–520 – 597/602), an early Irish saint, was the founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor in Ireland.
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Saint Comgall (c. 510–520 – 597/602), an early Irish saint, was the founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor in Ireland. [1]
Abbot and teacher of St. Columbanus and the monks who evangelized France and central Europe. He was born about 516 in Ylster, Ireland, and studied under St. Fintan at Cluain Eidnech Monastery. After living under a harsh rule as a hermit, Comgall founded a monastery in Bangor.
Comgall, or Congal, Saint, was born in 516, of a distinguished Dalaradian family. As he grew up, religious yearnings pressed on him; he travelled, and found a home with St. Fintan at Clonenagh.
Comgall, Saint, founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor, flourished in the sixth century. The year of his birth is uncertain, but according to the testimony of the Irish annals it must be placed between 510 and 520; his death is said to have occurred in 602 (“Annals of Tighernach” and “Chronicon Scotorum”), or 597 ...
Saint Comgall of Bangor, also known as Comgall of Ireland, was born around 510 in Dalaradia, near Magheramorne, in County Antrim, Ireland. He was the son of Sedna and dedicated his life to the service of God from an early age.
COMGALL, ST. Sixth century Irish monastic founder; b. Ulster, c. 520; d. Bangor, Ireland, c. 602. St. Comgall founded the monastery of Bangor about 555 on the southern shore of Belfast Lough. Its rule, derived from Clonenagh in Leix, was very severe.
St. Comgall, Abbot of Bangor, reposed in the Lord after a long and acute sickness in the year 601, aged about 85. Before his death he was given communion by St. Fiacre, who had been warned by an angel of the saint’s approaching death.
