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	St. Columbanus
		Columbanus is named in the Roman Martyrology on 21 November, but his feast is kept by the Benedictines and throughout Ireland on 24 November.
		The Rule of St: Columbanus was approved of by the Council of Macon in 627, but it was destined before the close of the century to be superseded by that of St. Benedict.
		In art St. Columbanus is represented bearded bearing the monastic cowl, he holds in his hand a book with an Irish satchel, and stands in the midst of wolves.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/columbanus,saint.html (3445 words)

	Columbanus Summary
		Columbanus is reported to have performed a miracle in Bregenz: The townpeople had placed a large vessel in the town center, filled with beer.
		The Rule of St. Columbanus was approved of by the Council of Mâcon in 627, but it was destined before the close of the century to be superseded by that of St. Benedict.
		Columbanus is not to be confused with his near contemporary, Saint Columba, otherwise known as Columcille.
	www.bookrags.com /Columbanus (4018 words)

	Columbanus - Monastic Ireland
		Columbanus is born in the southeast of the country, on the border of Carlow and Wexford in 543.
		Columbanus' mother is distraught at the thought of his leaving, and pleads with her son to stay.
		Columbanus decides to head for Italy, a suggestion that fails to meet with the favour of his mostly Germanic brethren.
	www.catholicireland.net /monasticireland/storiesofsaints/columbanus.htm (1265 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Columbanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Columbanus, to find solitude for prayer, often lived for long periods in a cave seven miles from the monastery, using a messenger to stay in touch with his brothers.
		Columbanus served as master of them all, and wrote a Rule for them; it incorporated many Celtic practices, was approved by the Council of Macon in 627, but was superseded by the Benedictine.
		In addition to his problems with the bishops, Columbanus spoke out against vice and corruption in the royal household and court, which was in the midst of a series of complex power grabs.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintc5s.htm (1128 words)

	Saints
		No mention of St. Bartholomew occurs in ecclesiastical literature before Eusebius, who mentions that Pantaenus, the master of Origen, while evangelizing India, was told that the Apostle had preached there before him and had given to his converts the Gospel of St. Matthew written in Hebrew, which was still treasured by the Church.
		In Christian art St. Rupert is portrayed with a vessel of salt in his hand, symbolizing the universal tradition according to which Rupert inaugurated salt-mining at Salzburg; this portrayal of St. Rupert is generally found upon the coins of the Duchy of Salzburg and Carinthia.
		When St. Boniface, in 739, divided Bavaria into four diocese, the first Bishop of Ratisbon fixed his see at the Abbey of St. Emmeram, but later on it was removed by a subsequent bishop to the old Cathedral of St. Stephen, which stands beside the present one.
	www.geocities.com /historyofaustria/saints.html (5533 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The founder of several European monasteries, St. Columbanus was born c.
		Columbanus appealed to Gregory the Great, but nothing is known of the outcome of this act.
		Seven years later, Columbanus left Burgandy to preach to the Allemani of Switzerland; when Burgandy captured Switzerland, he fled to northern Italy, where he established a monastery at Bobbio in 613.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/columbanus.html (194 words)

	St. Columban
		Columbanus (as he is called in Latin) was a native of Ireland's southern province, Leinster.
		St. Columban, strict with himself and his monks, did not mince words with the laity either.
		Columbanus' own writings, reflecting the classical Latin tradition, were part of the valuable legacy.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id283.htm (588 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Columbanus
		Abbot of Luxeuil and Bobbio, born in West Leinster, Ireland, in 543; died at Bobbio, Italy, 21 November, 615.
		Gregory and St. Columba are supposed to have met (Moran, Irish SS.
		The sacristy at Bobbio possesses a portion of the skull of the saint, his knife, wooden cup, bell, and an ancient water vessel, formerly containing sacred relics and said to have been given him by St.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04137a.htm (3471 words)

	Columbanus.org - The tale of Columbanus
		According to tradition, the spiritual father of Columbanus, St Molaisi of Devenish, ordered Columbanus as a penance to bring the same number of souls to Christ that he had caused to die.
		The Columbanus symposiums take their name from the legend of Columbanus, the conflict between the access to a work and the exclusive rights of the creator still being an issue of current legal policies.
		Since 1995, the Columbanus symposiums have been organised with the ambition to foster academic discussion of issues related to the legal policies of intellectual property.
	www.jus.uio.no /iri/columbanus/tale.shtml (510 words)

	Untitled Document
		There is a story that says St. Columbanus and St. Gall parted because St. Columbanus suspected Gall of malingering and gave him a penance that he could not celebrate mass during his lifetime and that Gall did so.
		Gall is the protector of geese and poultry.
		The first we know of St. Gall is that his parents brought him to the Bangor monastery in Co. Down.This was a custom at the time, to to bring children to monasteries to be taught in the hope that they might become monks.
	www.iol.ie /~pemsch/tyweb/pg9.htm (757 words)

	Knights of St. Columbanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He subsequently became curate of upper Mourne or Kilkeel, administrator of St. Mary's Belfast and of St. Patrick's, Belfast, and in 1906 he was appointed parish priest of the Sacred Heart parish, Oldpark Road, Belfast.
		This was the origin of the program of study and education in social principles which continues to underpin all the endeavors of the Knights of St. Columbanus which he founded in 1915 to promote and foster the cause of the Catholic faith and Catholic education.
		Also known as St. Columban, the patron of the Knights of St. Columbanus and patron of the Columban Fathers, lived from 543 to 615 A.D. A monk and a missionary, he is recognized as one of the great pioneers of western European civilization.
	www.kykofc.com /kentucky/iack/columbanus.htm (1151 words)

	TEI header for Letters of Columbanus
		Louis Gougaud, in: Revue Celtique 39 (1922) 211–14; on the cult of St. Columban.
		Friedrich Prinz, 'Columbanus, the Frankish nobility and the territories east of the Rhine', in: H. Clarke and Mary Brennan (edd.), Columbanus and Merovingian Monasticism, Oxford 1981, 73–87.
		Ian Wood, 'A prelude to Columbanus: the monastic achievement in the Burgundian territories', in: H. Clarke and Mary Brennan (edd.), Columbanus and Merovingian Monasticism, Oxford 1981, 3–32.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/published/L201054/header.html (2267 words)

	Favorite Monks: St. Columbanus - Celtic Christian Saints - (The Prayer Foundation)
		Columbanus Celtic monasteries were experiencing phenomenal growth, with great numbers of monks coming to enter them, and vast numbers of pilgrims coming to visit them.
		Columbanus and his little band of monks immediately took off for the mission fields of Germany and Switzerland.
		Columbanus left for Italy, arriving (625 A.D.) in Milan, where he founded the monastery of Bobbio near Milan (still in existence today) and fought the Arian Heresy with correct Bible teaching (the Arians rejected the Deity of Christ).
	prayerfoundation.org /favoritemonks/favorite_monks_columbanus.htm (982 words)

	Abbey of St Gall
		In addition to the teaching of arts and sciences, the library was continuously developed and the copy of manuscripts for their dissemination was undertaken very early.The abbey hosted, among others, many Irish and Anglo-Saxon monks who came to copy documents for their ons monasteries.
		The monks at St Gallen, over the years, had to protect themselves against the bishop of Constance who refused to recognise the exemptions and other privileges that had been granted to the abbey.
		In 1847 it was re-arranged and St Gall became a Diocese of its own: the abbey church became a cathedral and part of the monastic buildings assigned as the bishop's palace.
	www.wwgenealogy.com /Stgall_en.htm (597 words)

	Irishness
		Columbanus (not to be confused with St.Columba who founded Iona) was a Leinstermn, born about the time (c.543) St. Ciaran established the famed learning center at Clonmacnoise.
		Columbanus was something of a "character" like the prophets of old.
		Columbanus went to Italy where he started the foundation at Bobbio, where he died in 615.
	www.angelfire.com /linux/irelandishfl (844 words)

	Saint Gall Catholic Church...History ofour Patron Saint Gall
		An Irishman by birth, he was one of the twelve disciples who accompanied St. Columbanus to Gaul, and established themselves with him at Luxeuil.
		Gall delivered from the demon by which she was possessed Fridiburga, the daughter of Cunzo and the betrothed of Sigebert, King of the Franks; the latter, through gratitude, granted to the saint an estate near Arbon, which belonged to the royal treasury, that he might found a monastery there.
		The saint is ordinarily represented with a bear; for a legend, recorded in the Lives, relates that one night, at the command of the saint, one of these animals brought wood to feed the fire which Gall and his companions had kindled in the desert.
	www.saintgall.org /saint.htm (600 words)

	St. Deicolus
		Having studied at Bangor he was selected as one of the twelve disciples to accompany St. Columbanus in his missionary enterprise.
		Numerous miracles are recorded of St. Deicolus, including the suspension of his cloak on a sunbeam and the taming of wild beasts.
		Feeling his end approaching, St. Deicolus gave over the government of his abbey to Columbanus, one of his young monks, and spent his remaining days in prayer and meditation.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/deicolus,saint.html (279 words)

	Knights of Saints Peter and Paul
		He was then buried on Vatican Hill, and excavations under St. Peter’s Basilica have unearthed his probable tomb, and his relics are now enshrined under the high altar of St. Peter’s.
		t the end of the two years St. Paul was released from his Roman imprisonment, and then traveled to Spain, later to the East again, and then back to Rome, where he was imprisoned a second time and in the year 67, was beheaded.
		In his Epistles, St. Paul shows himself to be a profound religious thinker and he has had an enduring formative influence in the development of Christianity.
	www.kykofc.com /kentucky/iack/peter.htm (598 words)

	COCM Nov. 2001
		After both his parents died, St. Gregory Thaumaturgis tried to acquire wisdom, not only studying the teachings of the Greek philosophers, but "knowing by experience the weakness and incoherence of their doctrines" came to study and be a disciple of the Gospel.
		The relics of St. Clement were thought to have been brought to Rome in the ninth century by St. Cyril, and brought to the church of San Clemente on the Coelian, although it is possible that there might be some confusion with the Clement of Okhrida who was a disciple of Ss.
		Columbanus prophesied that, "If you do not become a monk by choice, you will be one by force." When Thierry defeated Theodebert, he mocked Theodebert by sending him to Brunehaut, who was Theirry's murderous mother, and she had Theodebert's head shaved, put him in a monk's robe and put him to death.
	celticchristianity.org /COCQ/COCM200111.html (20128 words)

	The Order of the Knights of Saint Columbanus
		The Knights of St. Columbanus submit that the recognition of same-sex unions on the same terms as marriage would suggest to future generations and to society as a whole that marriage as husband and wife, and as same-sex relationship, are equally valid options, and an equally valid context for the bringing up of children.
		Columbanus, however, would welcome the opportunity to strengthen Constitutional protection for the role and work of parents and carers.
		The Knights of St. Columbanus took part in the foundation of the Chapel of St. Columbanus in the Crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome in the early 1950’s when the then Irish Ambassador to the Holy See, H.E. Joseph Patrick Walsh, lobbied for a representation for Ireland.
	www.knightsofstcolumbanus.ie /news.php (3199 words)

	Columba of Iona - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The primary source on the life of St. Columba is the Life of St. Columba, a hagiography by St. Adomnan of Iona.
		Columba's feast day is June 9, and with St. Patrick of Ireland (March 17) and St. Brigid of Kildaire (February 1) is one of the three patron saints of Ireland.
		Columba is not to be confused with his disciple, St. Columbanus.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Columba_of_Iona (496 words)

	The Monastery of St. Gall
		It remained an abbey until the early 1800s, when portions of it were sectioned off to house the bishop and the rest of the diocese.
		The monastery's founder, St. Gallus, originally came to Switzerland as part of St. Columbanus missionary retinue.
		During his stay he became ill, and was forced to remain behind while St. Columbanus went on to Italy.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/stgall~1.htm (298 words)

	Accidental Pilgrim - Chapter 2
		Columbanus was supposed to sail back to Ireland, but Jonas tells of a miracle that stopped his boat from sailing out of the port, and it certainly seems his guards lost interest after escorting him this far, so instead of heading home, the party of monks headed back inland, but further north.
		Columbanus' dispute was with the king of Burgundy, a Theuderic, but he was welcomed by the king's relatives, who controlled the other two realms.
		Of course, Columbanus had much more modest equipment, and I would perhaps have done well to recall his wise comment that 'the man to whom little is not enough will not benefit from more'.
	www.accidentalpilgrim.com /sample_chapters/chapter2.html (3567 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 23
		Columbanus had soon collected such a vast number of disciples that a new home had to be sought some miles distant at Luxeuil.
		Columbanus could find his peace-nurtured believing mind only bewildered by these Oriental disputations and phrase-weavings- -historians wrong both him and the original sources of his history when they see descending the slopes of the Alps only a dogmatic sleuth-hound yearning for controversial blood.
		Columbanus is represented as a Benedictine with a missioner's cross and a bear near him.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1123.htm (6961 words)

	Among the Cloud of Irish Witnesses: October--December
		St Gall came from Leinster to Bangor in county Down to be trained in the monastery there by Comgall.
		Although he did not found the St Gall monastery in Switzerland which bears his name and is a famous reminder of his Christian evangelising, his gentle life of holiness made a deep impression both in France and Switzerland.
		St Flannan's oratory beside the cathedral is an impressive example of early Irish architecture.
	www.oremus.org /liturgy/ireland/witness/q4.html (1543 words)

	St. Tutilo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When St. Gall, the companion of St. Columbanus, died in Switzerland in 640, a monastery was built over the place of his burial.
		The Gregorian chant manuscripts from the monastery of St. Gall, many of them undoubtedly the work of St. Tutilo, are considered among the most authentic and were studied carefully when the monks of Solesmes were restoring the tradition of Gregorian chant to the Catholic Church.
		Proof of the Irish influence at St. Gall is a large collection of Irish manuscripts at the abbey dating from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/TUTILO.htm (431 words)

	Irish Monks in Europe
		His most famous monastery is in Bobbio in Italy where the Saints body is interred under the marble altar in the Basilica of St. Columbanus.
		St. Goban Martyr A.D. He built a church dedicated to St. Peter near Le Fere and Premontre.
		St. Fursey (A.D.648) was born near Lough Corrib.
	www.sip.ie /sip019I/europe.htm (314 words)

	Biographies of Great Men & Women of England, Wales and Scotland
		His cousin, Audo, was a friend of St. Columbanus and founded the monastery of Jouarre under Agilbert's sister, Abbess Theochilda.
		Agilbert lived and worked in Southern Ireland before he was invited, by King Cenwalh of Wessex, to succeed St. Birinus as Bishop of Wessex at Dorchester-on-Thames (Oxfordshire) in AD 650.
		Here, he was asked to put the case for the Roman observance of Easter at the famous Synod of Whitby in 664, but, for the most part, relied on St. Wilfred whom he had recently ordained a priest.
	www.britannia.com /bios/agilbert.html (319 words)

	St. Columbanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eventually the order was given for his deportation back to Ireland; the journey was prevented by a storm at sea, and Columbanus was able to head in other directions, first to the Rhine valley, and then over the Alps to Bobbio in Italy where a large new foundation was made in 613.
		His Rule was too strict for most, who preferred the greater flexibility offered by St. Benedict.
		Although the form of monasticism which he introduced did not survive, Columbanus may be reckoned the greatest of the Irish missionaries to the mainland of Europe.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/st_columbanus.htm (104 words)

	The Catholic New World: Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Chicago, she served as an administrator at St. Joseph Hospital from 1981-86, and a full-time board member from 1986-87.
		Dominican Sister Merici O’Malley, 94, died Sept. 22 at St. Dominic Villa, Sinsinawa, Wis. Born in Chicago, she entered the congregation in 1930.
		From 1975-2004, she served on the St. Mary-of-the-Woods infirmary staff, as Blessed Sacrament Chapel Sacristan and in residential services.
	catholicnewworld.com /cnw/issue/obit.html (389 words)

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