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COLUMBAN (543-615)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 738 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLUMBAN (543-615)  , Irish saint and writer, was born in
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Leinster in 543, and was educated in the monastery of Bangor, Co . Down . About the
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year 585 he
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left Ireland together with twelve other monks, and established himself in the Vosges, among the ruins of an ancient fortification called Anagrates, the
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present Anegray in the department of Haute-
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Saone . His enemies accused him before a synod of French bishops (6o2) for keeping
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Easter according to the old
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British and now unorthodox way, and a more powerful conspiracy was organized against him at the court of
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Burgundy for boldly rebuking the crimes of King Theuderich II. and the queen-
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mother Brunhilda . He was banished and forcibly removed from his monastery, and with St Gall and others of the monks he withdrew into
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Switzerland, where he preached with no
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great success to the Suebi and Alamanni . Being again compelled to flee, he retired to Italy, and founded the monastery of
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Bobbio in the Apennines, where he remained till his
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death, which took place on the 21st of November 615 . His writings, which include some Latin poems, prove him a man of learning, and he appears to have been acquainted not only with the Latin
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classics, but also with Greek, and even
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Hebrew The collected edition of St Columban's writings was published b) Patrick Fleming in his Collectanea sacra Hiberni (Louvain, 1667), II and reproduced by Migne, p . 9, vol. lxxxvi . (Paris, 1844) . See further, Wright's Biographia Literaria . Columban's
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Regula Coenobitalis cum Poenitentiali is to be found in the Codex Regularum (Paris, 1638) . A
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complete bibliography is given in ,U .

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

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