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Well, if you’re not Italian and you’re \u00a0going to Google him, to see who the Pope was talking about this morning – try replacing a vowel – Columbanus<\/a><\/em>
\nFrom the AsiaNews report:<\/a><\/p>\n

“One of the fathers of Europe”, who shows us where the continent’s roots are “from which it can be reborn”, and at the same time an example of “detachment from earthly goods, in view of an eternal inheritance”, and of “rejection of compromise” with the powerful. Saint Colombanus, the Irish monk who was the author of a fundamental “Rule”, is the “father of the Church” whose figure and work Benedict XVI illustrated today.\u00a0 To the 20,000 people present at the general audience, the pope explained in particular the work that the holy monk undertook to re-evangelise a continent that the barbarian invasions had to a great extent led back into paganism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MORE<\/a>
\nAnd here is St. Columbanus’ Rule.<\/a>
\nThe 7th century Life of St. Columbanus (or Columban, as he is called here<\/a>. Not to be confused with St. Columba of Iona, either. <\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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