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Excerpt from The Monks of the West, Vol. 3 of 6: From St. Benedict to St. Bernard
I'he biographers of Columba. - His different names - His royal origin. The supreme kings of Ireland the o'neills and o'donnells Red Hugh. - Birth of Columba Vision of his mother. - His monastic education; jealousy of his comrades; Kieran; the two Finnians; the school of Clonard. - Vision of the guardian angel and the three brides - The assassin of a virgin struck by death at the prayer of Columba. - His youthful inuence in Ireland; his monastic founda tions, especially at Durrow and at Derry his song in honour of Derry. - His love for poetry his connection with the travelling bards - He was himself a poet, a great traveller, and of a quarrelsome disposi tion. - His passion for manuscripts. - Longarad of the hairy legs and his bag of books. - Dispute about the Psalter of Finnian; judgment of King Diarmid, founder of Clonmacnoise. - Protest of Columba; he takes to ight, chanting the Hymn of Confidence, and raises a civil wan - Battle of cul-dreimhne the Outhue or Psalter of battle - Synod of Teltown Columba is excommunicated - St. Brendan takes part with Columba, who consults several hermits, and among others Abban, in the Cell of Tears. - The last of his advisers, Molaise, condemns him to exile. - Twelve of his disciples follow him devotion of the young Mochonna. - Contradictory reports concerning the first forty years of his life.
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