Columbanus – the Latinised form of Columban, meaning 'the white dove' – was born south of Dublin in 543 and at an early age decided to devote his life to the service of Christ. As a young man he ...
A reader writes, about the “Seminary Confidential” post, and the “Post-Graduation Fall From Christian Orthodoxy” post: I recently read and deeply appreciated the two articles named in the title of ...
Columbanus died 1,400 years ago this month, having re-evangelized Western Europe. The handsome and hot-headed Columbanus was one of Western Europe's most successful evangelists ever. According to ...
Speaking during his weekly papal audience on June 11th, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI described St Columbanus as “the best known Irishman of the early Middle Ages”. But it is in the interest of all ages ...
Celebrating St Columbanus, the sixth century monk, in the many places where his memory remains alive
Columbanus saw himself as undoubtedly a “Peregrinus pro Christo” (a pilgrim for Christ). Going on a Camino, going on a pilgrimage, allows us to become pilgrims, to step back from the familiar and give ...
Catholics in Ireland can look back upon the days of Saint Columbanus and his contemporaries with much pride, the Irish Ambassador to the Holy See, Frances Collins, has said in a tribute to the early ...
RECENTLY parishes across Ireland celebrated the 1,400th anniversary of the death of St Columbanus. He is sometimes confused with St Colmcille, founder of the monastery of Iona, but, while Colmcille ...
Bangor and Central Europe's most famous Saint, Columbanus, will be commemorated in a new European Cultural Route 'The Columban Way'. On Friday, November 15, the Mayor of North Down and Ards, Cllr ...
Brother Columbanus Deegan OFM, who has died aged 82, was a second World War veteran, who in 1944 took part in the D-Day landings… Brother Columbanus DeeganOFM, who has died aged 82, was a second World ...
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