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Saint Columban by Francis MacManus is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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240 pages 21 cm This book is the result of a desire to see and understand a man who died more than thirteen centuries ago. It is an attempt to put together in a significant pattern the fragments of what was once a continuous reality. The reality was a man of unbelievably intense energy and devotion. His name was Columbanus or Columban or simply Columba, and he was a saint....Columban moved through his age as the most ascetical of monks, as a founder of monasteries, as a castigator of tough, willful rulers, as a missionary in a corrupt , half-christened civilization, and above all, as one of the begetters of the penitential spirituality which characterized Europe of the Middle Ages. It was more than just incidental that he came from Ireland into Gaul. (from the Foreword) Includes bibliographical references Island of monks -- Into Gaul -- The rule -- Dark Easter -- Exile within exile -- High mountains -- Lombard court -- Last sojourn -- Epilogue: Jonas the biographer
- Author
- Francis MacManus
- Publisher
- New York, Sheed & Ward
- Published
- 1962
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, Humanities