Columbanus

thumb|Saint Columbanus Columbanus (543 – 21 November 615) 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. Quotes O Lord God, uproot, uproot from my soul all that the enemy has planted in you. Take away from my heart and lips all iniquity, give me intelligence and the habit of good, so that in works and truths I may not serve you alone: I may know how to do the precepts of Christ and seek you, O my God! Grant me memory, charity, faith. Ladies work good in me and give me what You judge to be useful to me. Amen. Quoted in 1400° anniversario della morte di San Colombano di Bobbio, vaticanstate.va, 19 November 2015. God is everywhere; he is immense and everywhere present, according to what he said about himself: I am a God nearby and not a God far away (cf. Jer 23, 23). AAVV, Liturgia horarum iuxta ritum Romanum, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, ed. italiana, Roma, 1972. So let us not seek God as if he were far from us, because we can have him within us. AAVV, Liturgia horarum iuxta ritum Romanum, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, ed. italiana, Roma, 1972. If, therefore, anyone wants to know what he must believe, he must realize that he will not be able to understand more by speaking about it than by believing. AAVV, Liturgia horarum iuxta ritum Romanum, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, ed. italiana, Roma, 1972. Quotes about Columbanus By all he was well received and favored, though not always by all equally, nor did he ever cease to proclaim to them, as the most comforting, so still the gravest and most terrible truths of the Gospel. And as all who heard him with modesty and docility were glad, so went away sad, indeed lost those who resisted his apostolic exhortations. He did not lack his Herod in Theodoric, nor his Herodias in Brunechilde, who, if they denied him the crown of martyrdom, did not deprive him of that of persecution, which he tolerated with the chests of the Baptists, the Grisostomes and the Tommasis of Cantorbery. Antonio Maria Gianelli, Vita di San Colombano abbate irlandese protettore della città e diocesi di Bobbio e dell'insigne borgo di S. Colombano nella diocesi di Lodi, Stabilimento tipografico Fontana, Torino, 1844, pp. VI-VIII. He was a monk and anchorite, but he knew how to combine the virtues of the cloister with the palms of the apostolate. He did not lack much erudition, and left some uninspiring writings, besides those that were lost. He illustrated with his preaching France, much of Germany and Italy, and perhaps still England and Scotland. He founded a religious order, and not a few monasteries, and left them a rule of extraordinary holiness and perfection. It would not be well known whether the fame of his virtues was greater, or that of his miracles; but it is undoubted that in these as well as in those he was surprising and distinguished. Antonio Maria Gianelli, Vita di San Colombano abbate irlandese protettore della città e diocesi di Bobbio e dell'insigne borgo di S. Colombano nella diocesi di Lodi, Stabilimento tipografico Fontana, Torino, 1844, p. XII. External links Category:6th century births Category:616 deaths Category:Monks Category:Catholics from Ireland Category:Catholic saints