Optional Memorial
Saint Columban
- Feast day
- November 23
- Patron of
- motorcyclists
- Origin
- Irish
Life
Columban was an Irish missionary monk who founded monasteries across France, Switzerland, and Italy. His strict monastic rule and energetic evangelization helped re-Christianize post-Roman Europe.
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