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Jan 26, 1996 · F, MacManus, St. Columban (1963) This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book . The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the document is copyright.
Columbanus’s impact had a long afterlife, and was responsible ultimately for Ireland’s reputation as the land of saints and scholars. He wrote of Ireland’s location in ‘the Western regions of the earth’s farther strand’ and used dramatic imagery to portray the coming of Christianity to his homeland.
Alexander O'Hara. 2015. This is a compilation of the writings of the Irish saint and monastic founder Columbanus to mark the 14th centenary of his death in 2015. It is aimed at a non-specialist readership and as an introduction to Columbanus's life and thought. It includes a translation of the earliest poem on Ireland written by one of ...
Columbanus was an important monastic founder, a writer of note and a contributor to theological debate. He was intensely aware of his Irishness. Columbanus was a highly political figure who argued with kings and bishops and popes. Famous in his lifetime, he came to be seen as an iconic Irish exile. How important was he?
New Catholic Encyclopedia. COLUMBAN, ST. Also known as Columbanus or Columba the Younger, Irish monk, abbot of luxeuil and bobbio; b. Leinster, Ireland, c. 543; d. Bobbio, Italy, Nov. 23, 615. Columbanus studied at the school of St. Sinell (a disciple of St. Finnian of Clonard) at Cleenish in Lough Erne and entered the monastery and school of ...
Saint Columbanus or “Columbán” (543-615 CE) was one of the greatest missionaries of the early Catholic Church who led the “Hiberno-Scottish mission” of conversion across much of what is now Western Europe in the late 6th and early 7th century CE. Although chiefly remembered as the founder of Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy c. 612-614 ...
