The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-10-18

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My Derry, my Derry, my little oak
grove.
My dwelling, my home and my own
little cell,
May God TIL Eternal in Heaven above
Send death to thy foes and defend
thee WE'LL
COLUMBIA was only rs when lie
founded Derry. Within the next IL
years he established the still more
celebrated schools Of Durrow in Kinss
county and Kells in Meath. A de-
scription Of him at this time is given
by an ancient writer who says he was
a man we'll formed, with powerful
frame: his skin was white, his face
was broad and fair and radiant. lit up
with large, gray, luminous eyes; his
large and well shaped head was
crowned with close and curling hair,
except where he wore his frontal tom
sure. His voice was sweet with the
sweetness Of the bards, clear and res
onant so that he could be heard at
$500 paces-what would be his record
with a modern megaphone?
passionate. His activity was wonder
full. Not \ single hour Of the day.
says ALBANIAN. did he leave unoccu.
pied without engaging in prayer or IN
reading or in writing or in some other
work. He took part in the manual
labor Of the monastery. cooking or
looking after his plowmen. He was an
unwearied scribe and poetry was his
delight. His followers were over oocu.
pied in TRANSFERRING his literary works,
and we read In his Irish life that hs
himself wrote 900 gifted, lasting, H.
Illuminated, noble books
Scotland became the home Of COL
umba in b6S. His motive in leavine
his native Ireland 10 given BY his ninth
successor and most noted biographer.
Albanian. az the desire to carry the
gospel to a pagan nation and to win
souls to God.'
"Other authorities enter moro into
detail and declare with considerable
probability that Columbia was carry
ing out a severe penance imposed on
him by his confessor, st. Molaise. to
leave Ireland and preach the gospel
SO as to win for Christ as many souls
as had persisted in the battle of COL
dreveny. where Columba's clansmen,
the Neills, supported by his prayers
and melted by his counsels, had de-
feated the warriors Of King Diarmait
In the year SCI.
With IL companions Columbia
crossed the sea in a curach of wicker
work covered with hides, and landed
on the barren. craggy island Of Iona
on the eve Of Pentecost. May 12, &c.,
"For the next 800 years Iona was vir.
tually an Irish island. occupied by
Irish monks and scholars.
"As soon as COLUMBIA. and his So!.
lowers had built their monastery they
went forth to preach Christianity to
the northern Picts.
Many memorials OF their sanity
work are found in northern Scotland
the Great Glen and the country to the
eastward into Aberdeeshire.
"Montalembert's Monks Of the West
Columba's missionary work. His feast
is kept In Scotland, June 9, for holy
mother church observed the feast day
Of a saint not on the date OF his birth,
which marks his entrance into this
vale Of tears but on the date Of his
death. which marks the triumphant
ending Of his time Of probation.
ION the eve Of l1s death, which &c.
CURED in 697. he was engaged In the
work Of transcription. Earlier in the
day he had viewed the gardens ana
buildings Of the monastery in company
with Diarmait, his attendant: he had
blessed the work Of his followers for
the last time and was returning from
the barn to the monastery whom he
was overcome with fatigue and cat
down by tho roadside to rest.
And the chronicler tells ~ that Us
he sat there resting his ased limbs,
the old white horse that used to carry
the milk pals from the byre to the
monastery came up and put his head
on the saints shoulder. - II tho an
imal knew that his master was 10
leave him.
Entering the oloister he went d.
rectly to his cell and sat there copying
the Psaltery But an Aoon m he cana