Columba

Columban ( Columban ) Iona (Irish Colm Cille [' kolɘm ' kiL'ɘ ], Old Irish Colum Cille [' Colombian ' kiL'e ], dt " church dove ", also Columban of Hy, Columba the Elder, * 521/522 in Gartan, Ireland; † on Iona, Scotland ) was an Irish monk and missionary, 597. He is regarded as one of the " three cartridge " and the " Twelve Apostles of Ireland ". He is not to be confused with the younger Columban ( Columbanus of Luxeuil ).

Life

Columban was born in 521 or 522 as Crimthann ( "fox" ). It belongs to the northern Uí Conaill Kindred Cenél Néill ( O'Neill ) in what is now County Donegal, who provided his time some of the high kings of Ireland at Tara.

In his youth a pupil of Finnian of Clonard, he moved to 540 to the monastery glass Nóiden. Around 546 he founded the monastery Daire Calcaich ( Doire Derry ). Also Durrow is regarded as its foundation, and about 50 other smaller churches in Ireland and Scotland call him as the founder.

Columban triggered the war books when he hl the. Finnian Drumm attended Finn and secretly copied out a book from the library. ( The controversial Gospel copy exists supposedly today - it should be (warrior ) the book " Cathach " which is preserved in the Royal Irish Academy. ) High king Diarmait mac Cerbaill judged from the SIL nÁedo Sláine in Tara: " The calf belongs to the cow, the copy of the book ". Colum Cille cursed the king, which is considered as a cause for the battle of Cul Dreimne 561 between Colum Cille's clan and the High King. After the battle Columban was perhaps therefore excommunicated, but this offset by the Synod of Tailtiu ( Teltown ) on intercession of Brendan of Birr again.

563 or 565, he went into exile ( peregrinatio ) to Alba (Scotland ) and founded with twelve companions a monastery on the island of Iona. From there, he proselytized among the Picts. ( A special episode of this missionary work describes the hagiographer of Colum Cille, Adomnán mac Rónáin, in the 27th chapter of his Life of Columba. Colum Cille orders here a water animal in the river Ness drained by one of his followers. At this point, we find the first mention of the monster of Loch Ness. ) He also went back several times to Ireland. When the King of Dál Riata Conall I. ( Dalriada ) death, he intervened in the succession and made Aidan mac Gabhrain successor. 575 Columban served as a mediator with the King meeting of Druim Cett and prevented the expulsion of the filid ( poet ) of Ireland. In the 9th and 10th centuries it became customary to ascribe to him Latin and Old Irish church hymns ( " Colum Cille cecinit " ) to accept his authority for them to complete. His, however, handed down only in the late hagiographies commitment to the Old Irish poet led since Romanticism ( Ossian ) to the fact that it is often assumed itself as a trained fili ( poet ), without concrete evidence can be presented. After Adomnán he died on the morning of June 9 597 in Iona.

Remembrance

Durrow, County Laois Iona Abbey Conall mac Comgaill Dál Riata Áedán mac Gabráin Integrated Authority File
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