- Name
- Columba (Masculino)
- Celebrate
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People named Columba use to celebrate 31-Dec:
Saint Columba virgen y mártir - Other saints
- Other saints named Columba
- Secular name
- Colum Cille
- Born
- December 7th 0521 en Donegal, in current Ireland
- Dead
- June 9th 0597 in Iona, Escocia, in current United kingdom
- Celebration
- June 9th
On the island of Iona in Scotland, St Columba and Colum Cille, presbyter and Abbot, who, born in Hibernia (Ireland today) and trained in the monastic precepts, he founded, there and elsewhere, famous monasteries by the observance and the cultivation of the scriptures, and already elderly, waiting for the Supreme day, died when he was at the foot of the altar. Roman martyrology