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COLUMBAN (543-615)

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COLUMBAN (543-615) , Irish See also:saint and writer, was See also:born in See also:Leinster in 543, and was educated in the monastery of See also:Bangor, Co. Down. About the See also:year 585 he See also:left See also:Ireland together with twelve other monks, and established himself in the See also:Vosges, among the ruins of an See also:ancient fortification called Anagrates, the See also:present Anegray in the See also:department of Haute-See also:Saone. His enemies accused him before a See also:synod of See also:French bishops (6o2) for keeping See also:Easter according to the old See also:British and now unorthodox way, and a more powerful See also:conspiracy was organized against him at the See also:court of See also:Burgundy for boldly rebuking the crimes of See also:King Theuderich II. and the See also:queen-See also:mother See also:Brunhilda. He was banished and forcibly removed from his monastery, and with St See also:Gall and others of the monks he withdrew into See also:Switzerland, where he preached with no See also:great success to the See also:Suebi and See also:Alamanni. Being again compelled to flee, he retired to See also:Italy, and founded the monastery of See also:Bobbio in the See also:Apennines, where he remained till his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 21st of See also:November 615. His writings, which include some Latin poems, prove him a See also:man of learning, and he appears to have been acquainted not only with the Latin See also:classics, but also with See also:Greek, and even See also:Hebrew The collected edition of St Columban's writings was published b) See also:Patrick See also:Fleming in his Collectanea sacra Hiberni (See also:Louvain, 1667), II and reproduced by See also:Migne, p. 9, vol. lxxxvi. (See also:Paris, 1844). See further, See also:Wright's Biographia Literaria. Columban's See also:Regula Coenobitalis cum Poenitentiali is to be found in the Codex Regularum (Paris, 1638). A See also:complete bibliography is given in ,U.

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des See also:sources hest. (Rio. Bibliogr.), vol. i. 990 (Paris, 1905).

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