Columbanus
Channel: 宇宙のすべての知識 プリンシピア
Date: 2019-02-01

Columbanus, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6501 / CC BY SA 3.0

#Irish_writers
#Irish_literature
#6th-century_Latin_writers
#7th-century_Latin_writers
#543_births
#615_deaths
#Irish_Christian_missionaries
#Founders_of_Catholic_religious_communities
#7th-century_Christian_saints
#Burials_at_Bobbio_Abbey
Columbanus

Columbanus (, 543 – 21 November 615), also known as St. Columban, was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. He is remembered as a key figure in the Hiberno-Scottish mission, or Irish missionary activity in early medieval Europe. In recent years, however, as Columbanus's deeds and legacy have come to be re-examined by historians, the traditional narrative of his career has been challenged and doubts have been raised regarding his actual involvement in missionary work and the extent to which he was driven by purely religious motives or also by a concern for playing an active part in politics and church politics in Francia.

Columbanus taught an Irish monastic rule and penitential practices for those repenting of sins, which emphasised private confession to a priest, followed by penances levied by the priest in reparation for the sins. Columbanus is one of the earliest identifiable Hiberno-Latin writers.

Most of what we know about Columbanus is based on Columbanus' own works (as far as they have been preserved) and Jonas of Bobbio's "Vita Columbani" ("Life of Columbanus"), which was written between 639 and 641. Jonas entered Bobbio after Columbanus' death but relied on reports of monks who still knew Columbanus. A description of miracles of Columbanus written by an anonymous monk of Bobbio is of much later date. In the second volume of his "Acta Sanctorum O.S.B.", Mabillon gives the life in full, together with an appendix on the miracles of the saint, written by an anonymous...