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 ...

“Saint Columbanus, who according to Benedict XVI we can truly consider one of the ‘Fathers of Europe,’ was convinced that there can be fraternity in the heart of Europe between people only if a ...

Denver, Colo., Nov 18, 2012 / 08:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An originator of Ireland's unique monastic tradition, who went on to serve as a missionary to continental Europe during the early Middle Ages, ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, sent a letter in the Holy Father’s name to the bishop of Lodi, Italy, for the 27th celebration of Columbanus Day. The day honors St.

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 ...

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 – 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 ...