St Columban

St Columban (543 – 615) was an Irish missionary, who, with twelve companions, settled in Gaul in 585. He founded two monasteries, but was banished for the offence of rebuking the king. He went to Italy, founded a monastery at Bobbio, where he died in 615.

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St Cosmas, St Croix, St Cuthbert, St Cyprian, St Cyr, St Cyril, St Cyril of Alexandria