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Columbanus, St (?543-615), ecclesiastic and missionary. Born in Leinster, he was educated at the monastery of Bangor, and from there set out on his peregrination c.590. In Gaul he founded monasteries in Luxeuil and Fontaine. After much journeying, his final monastic foundation was Bobbio in Lombardy. His surviving Latin writings include letters to Popes Gregory and Boniface III and IV and sermons.
Irish monk who established monasteries in Francia and in ad 612 at Bobbio in northern Italy. He died c.ad 615.
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