Columbanus

✶January 1, 543

†November 26, 615

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About their life

Columbanus was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. Columbanus taught an Irish monastic rule and penitential practices for those repenting of sins, which emphasised private confession to a priest, followed by penances imposed by the priest in reparation for the sins. Columbanus is one of the earliest identifiable Hiberno-Latin writers.

Irish missionary (543–615)

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Biography from the article Columbanus on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.