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Comgall. 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] Life. Comgall was born sometime between 510 and 520 in Dál nAraidi, Ulster according to the Irish annals near the place now known as Magheramorne in present-day County Antrim. [1] .
A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. 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. Repressing his dislike to the severity of the discipline, he continued there some time, and was afterwards ...
Feastday: May 10. Birth: 516. Death: 601. Author and Publisher - Catholic Online. Printable Catholic Saints PDFs. Shop St. Comgall. 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.
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...
Printable Catholic Saints PDFs. Shop St. Comgall. Comgall, of Ulster, Ireland, spent several years in a monastery at the foot of the Slieve Bloom mountains before becoming a priest. He then settled on an island to begin a religious community, but excessive austerities resulted in the deaths of seven monks there.
Comgall. Contributed by. Breen, Aidan. Comgall (d. 602), founder and first abbot of the monastery of Bennchor (Bangor, Co. Down), was born into the tribal territory of Dál nAraide in north-east Ulster in the early sixth century (506 Ann. Inisf.; 515 AU; his genealogy is given in LL, 348d33).
New Catholic Encyclopedia. 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. He helped St. columba of iona to convert the pagan Picts of Scotland ...
