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The foundation stone for St Columbanus' Secondary Intermediate School, as it was then known, was laid by Bishop Daniel Mageean on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1959. The school was built to serve the parishes of Bangor, Holywood and Newtownards and opened within a week of the feast of St Columbanus on 29 November 1960.
Carthach of Lismore studied at Bangor, as did Fintan of Doon. Saint Mirin was a prior at Bangor before leaving to found Paisley Abbey in Renfrewshire. Columbanus and Gall went off to Continental Europe in 590 AD and founded the famous monasteries of Luxiell (France), St Gallen (Switzerland) and Bobbio (Italy).
Columbanus then moved to Bangor Abbey where he studied to become a teacher of the Bible. [4] He was well-educated in the areas of grammar, rhetoric, geometry, and the Holy Scriptures. [ 4 ] Abbot Comgall taught him Greek and Latin. [ 6 ]
St. Comgall is mentioned in the "Life of Columbanus" by Jonas, as the superior of Bangor, under whom St. Columbanus had studied. He is also mentioned under 10 May, his feast-day in the "Felire" of Óengus of Tallaght published by Whitley Stokes for the Henry Bradshaw Society (2nd ed.), and his name is commemorated in the Stowe Missal (MacCarthy ...
St Colm's High School: Belfast: County Antrim: Roman Catholic Maintained: Secondary: 423-0223 [144] St Colm's High School Draperstown: Draperstown: County Londonderry: Roman Catholic Maintained: Secondary: 323-0132 [145] St Columbanus' College: Bangor: County Down: Roman Catholic Maintained: Secondary: 423-0107 [146] St Columba's College ...
Bangor (/ ˈ b æ ŋ ɡ ər / BANG-gər; [3] from Irish Beannchar [ˈbʲaːn̪ˠəxəɾˠ]) [1] is a city in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the southern side of Belfast Lough.It is within the Belfast metropolitan area and is 13 miles (22 km) east of Belfast city centre, to which it is linked by the A2 road and the Belfast–Bangor railway line.
The oldest surviving liturgical text of the Church in Ireland is the Antiphonary of Bangor from the 7th century. Indeed, at Bangor, a saint by the name of Columbanus developed his Rule of St. Columbanus. Strongly penetential in nature, this Rule played a seminal role in the formalisation of the Sacrament of Confession in the Catholic Church.
Portrait of St John from The Book of Mulling. The term "Celtic Rite" is applied [1] to the various liturgical rites used in Celtic Christianity in Britain, Ireland and Brittany and the monasteries founded by St. Columbanus and Saint Catald in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy during the Early Middle Ages.