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 ...

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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 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 ...

If you listened to Thought for the Day on Radio Ulster yesterday, you’d have been aware that Tuesday was the Feast of Saint Columbanus. The speaker described him as “a bit of a stirrer”. Which set the ...

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 ...

Matthew Seaver from the National Museum of Ireland tells us why the new Words on the Wave exhibition at the NMI is an absolutely must-see for everyone this summer. Whether interested in getting inside ...

A 3,200km pilgrimage by an Irish missionary could become a recognised European cultural route, with campaigners saying it could trigger a tourism bonanza. A satnav map of the evangelising journey of ...