The Christmas Tree and St Columban: Plant for the Earth!

The Christmas Tree and St Columban: Plant for the Earth!

Below, Jacques Prudhon, President of the Association of Les Amis de St Colomban, based in the French city of Luxeuil les Bains, where St Columban founded a monastery in 590AD, retells a local Christmas tale about the Christmas tree and St Columban. The current...
Farewell to Ger Clarke as he retires after 26 years

Farewell to Ger Clarke as he retires after 26 years

Ger Clarke, one of the best-known faces around Dalgan, has just retired after 26 years working in Dalgan sharing the Columban vision with thousands of school students through Columban Mission Outreach. Tribute from Fr Pat Raleigh: It is never easy saying goodbyes but...
St Columban: “more an eagle than a dove”

St Columban: “more an eagle than a dove”

To mark the Feast day of St Columban – patron of the Columbans – we publish an extract of Sr Redempta Twomey’s 2015 talks for RTE Radio on this inspirational Irish missionary who died in Bobbio in 615. In the Columban chapel in Dalgan, Co Meath there is a little...
St Columban’s Day: Journey to Bobbio

St Columban’s Day: Journey to Bobbio

Columban missionary Sr Ann Gray recalls some important insights she gleaned on her recent pilgrimage to Bobbio, where the great missionary St Columban died in November 615AD. A few months ago, I was fortunate to make my second pilgrimage to Bobbio, the place in Italy...