Editor’s Note: EWTN News In Depth correspondent Colm Flynn recently traveled to Bobbio, Italy, to share some amazing facts about an Irish saint. Below is an adapted transcribed report, printed with ...
A reader writes, about the “Seminary Confidential” post, and the “Post-Graduation Fall From Christian Orthodoxy” post: I recently read and deeply appreciated the two articles named in the title of ...
Speaking during his weekly papal audience on June 11th, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI described St Columbanus as “the best known Irishman of the early Middle Ages”. But it is in the interest of all ages ...
Columbanus saw himself as undoubtedly a “Peregrinus pro Christo” (a pilgrim for Christ). Going on a Camino, going on a pilgrimage, allows us to become pilgrims, to step back from the familiar and give ...
Columbanus – the Latinised form of Columban, meaning 'the white dove' – was born south of Dublin in 543 and at an early age decided to devote his life to the service of Christ. As a young man he ...
Matthew Seaver from the National Museum of Ireland tells us why the new Words on the Wave exhibition at the NMI is an absolutely must-see for everyone this summer. Whether interested in getting inside ...
The season of goodwill is in full swing in Ireland, where hundreds of people attended the annual St Columbanus Christmas Day dinner at the RDS in Dublin. Now in its 95th year, the event is organised ...
Throughout the Church's extensive history, numerous events of lasting significance have occurred. Each week marks anniversaries of impressive milestones, unforgettable tragedies, amazing triumphs, ...