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Saint Columbanus (Irish: Columbán; 543 – 23 November 615) [1] was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.
Bobbio Abbey (Italian: Abbazia di San Colombano) is a monastery founded by Irish Saint Columbanus in 614, around which later grew up the town of Bobbio, in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is dedicated to Saint Columbanus. It was famous as a centre of resistance to Arianism and as one of the greatest libraries in the Middle ...
The Missionary Society of St. Columban (Latin: Societas Sancti Columbani pro Missionibus ad Exteros) (abbreviated as S.S.C.M.E. or SSC), commonly known as the Columbans, is a missionary Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right founded in Ireland in 1917 and approved by the Holy See in 1918.
Cornelis (Cornelius) Columbanus Vrancx (Dendermonde, circa 1529/1530 – Ghent, 15 August 1615) [1] [2] was a Flemish writer of prose, poetic refrains and spotlighted against the Reformed. He was the 60th abbot of St Peter's Abbey in Ghent [ 3 ] from 1597 and wrote thirty-seven concise works.
The abbey was founded circa 590 by the Irish missionary Saint Columbanus. [1] Columbanus and his companions first settled in cells at Annegray, in the commune of Voivre, Haute-Saône. Looking for a more permanent site for his community, Columbanus decided upon the ruins of a well-fortified Gallo-Roman settlement, Luxovium, about eight miles away.
The Order of the Knights of Saint Columbanus (Irish: Ridirí Naomh Cholumba [1]) is an Irish national Catholic fraternal organisation. Founded by Canon James K. O'Neill in Belfast , Ireland, in 1915, it was named in honour of the Irish saint, Columbanus .
Columba (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə ˌ ˈ k ɒ l ʌ m b ə /) or Colmcille [a] (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.
Abbazia di San Colombano, Bobbio. Jonas was born in Susa, Piedmont.In 618, Jonas arrived at the Abbey of St. Columbanus at Bobbio in the province of Pavia.He was soon appointed archivist and personal secretary to the abbot Attala (died 627) and later, to his successor Bertulf.