St. Columba

[MariaRegina]

Where can you find the online biography of St. Columba (of Ireland)?

 

[Veritas]

Ooh sister. Give me a bit. I have a large binder that I have a number of saints bios on. I do remember seeing Columba. One caveat: I moved not long ago and I still have some stuff in boxes

I'll see if I can find it for you.

 

[MariaRegina]

After being told that St. Columba wasn't online, I just found this information:

Does anyone have any other information? My son misplaced my Butler's Lives of the Saints.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04136a.htm

St. Columba

Abbot of Iona, b. at Garten, County Donegal, Ireland, 7 December, 521; d. 9 June, 597. He belonged to the Clan O'Donnell, and was of royal descent. His father's name was Fedhlimdh and that of his mother Eithne. On his father's side he was great-great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Irish king of the fourth century. His baptismal name was Colum, which signifies a dove, hence the latinized form Columba. It assumes another form in Colum-cille, the suffix meaning "of the Churches". He was baptized at Tulach-Dubhglaise, now Temple-Douglas, by a priest named Cruithnechan, who afterwards became his tutor or foster-father. When sufficiently advanced in letters he entered the monastic school of Moville under St. Finnian who had studied at St. Ninian's "Magnum Monasterium" on the shores of Galloway. Columba at Moville monastic life and received the diaconate. In the same place his sanctity first manifested itself by miracles. By his prayers, tradition says, he converted water into wine for the Holy Sacrifice (Adam., II, i). Having completed his training at Moville, he travelled southwards into Leinster, where he became a pupil of an aged bard named Gemman. On leaving him, Columba entered the monastery of Clonard, governed at that time by Finnian, a remarkable, like his namesake of Moville, for sanctity and learning. Here he imbibed the traditions of the Welsh Church, for Finnian had been trained in the schools of St. David. Here also he became one those twelve Clonard disciples known in subsequent history as the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. About this same time he was promoted to the priesthood by bishop Etchen of Clonfad. The story that St. Finnian wished Columba to be consecrated bishop, but through a mistake only priest's orders were conferred, is regarded by competent authorities as the invention of a later age (Reeves, Adam., 226).

go to New Advent for the rest of the biography about St. Columba

BTW: St. Columba is also honored by the Orthodox Church

 

[Veritas]

Looks like you found what you wanted. That's great because I haven't had a chance to do some digging.

 

[karla]

Here's a couple

http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/cap03/sandra/columba.html

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/000262.html