Let’s Walk Together to Cleenish Island

Let’s Walk Together to Cleenish Island

We are inviting people to take part in a one-day pilgrim walk to Cleenish Island’s Columbanus site. St Columbanus came to Cleenish Island as a young man to study under St Sinell, who had founded a monastery on the shores of Lough Erne. The site that we are visiting...
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...