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The Communal Rule of Columbanus required monks to fast every day until None or 3 p.m.; this was later relaxed and observed on designated days. [23] Columbanus' Rule regarding diet was very strict. Monks were to eat a limited diet of beans, vegetables, flour mixed with water and a small bread of a loaf, taken in the evenings. [23] [24]
The 15th-century crypt houses the sarcophagus of St. Columbanus, by Giovanni dei Patriarchi (1480), [6] and those of the first two abbots, St. Attala and St. Bertulf. Also in the crypt is a 12th-century pavement mosaic with the histories of the Maccabeans and the Cycle of the Months. No structures of the earliest monastery buildings are visible.
In 590 St. Columbanus and his companions travelled to the Continent and established monasteries throughout France, South Germany, Switzerland, and North Italy, of which the best known were Luxeuil, Bobbio, St. Galen, and Ratisbon. It is from the Rule of St. Columbanus that we know something of a Celtic Divine Office. Irish missionaries, with ...
Use of the Columban Rule was widespread in congregations in Francia established either by Columbanus himself or his followers. At the same time the Rule of St. Benedict spread northward from southern Italy. By 640 both rules had been in long use at Bobbio. [98]
The monastery followed the Rule of Columbanus and later become a house of Augustinian Canons. Most biographical information about Donatus is based on Jonas of Bobbio's Life of Columbanus. [2] References to Donatus in other sources (acts of councils and charters) are listed in Duchesne's Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule, vol. 3. [3]
Later, the Rule of St. Columbanus was supplanted by the "softer" Rule of St. Benedict. The ascetic nature of Gaelic monasticism has been compared to the Desert Fathers of Egypt. Martin of Tours and John Cassian were significant influences.
The abbey was founded in c. 580 and initially followed the Rule of St. Columbanus, adopting the Rule of St. Benedict in 948. [1] [2] [3] [4]In November 882, after the monks had been decimated by the Viking invaders, the abbey was sacked, pillaged, burned and ruined. [5]
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 ...