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  2. Columbanus - Wikipedia

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    The Holy Father said Columbanus enhanced the Catholic Church. "The life and labours of the Columban monks proved decisive for the preservation and renewal of European culture", he said. [34] The Missionary Society of Saint Columban, founded in 1916, and the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, founded in 1924, are both dedicated to Columbanus.

  3. Missionary Society of St. Columban - Wikipedia

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    The Missionary Society of St. Columban (Latin: Societas Sancti Columbani pro Missionibus ad Exteros) (abbreviated as S.S.C.M.E. or SSC), commonly known as the Columbans, is a missionary Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right founded in Ireland in 1917 and approved by the Holy See in 1918.

  4. Missionary Sisters of St. Columban - Wikipedia

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    The Missionary Sisters of St. Columban (commonly referred to as the Columban Sisters, abbreviated as S.S.C.) are a religious institute of religious sisters dedicated to serve the poor and needy in the underdeveloped nations of the world. They were founded in Ireland in 1924 to share in the work of the priests of the Missionary Society of St ...

  5. Columba - Wikipedia

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    St. Columba's Episcopal Church is in Washington, D.C. [50] There is a St. Columba's Presbyterian Church in Peppermint Grove, Washington. [51] The Saint-Columba Presbyterian Church in Palmerstone, Vacoas-Phoenix is part of the Presbyterian Church in Mauritius. [52] Columba is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio.

  6. Bobbio Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Bobbio Abbey (Italian: Abbazia di San Colombano) is a monastery founded by Irish Saint Columbanus in 614, around which later grew up the town of Bobbio, in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is dedicated to Saint Columbanus. It was famous as a centre of resistance to Arianism and as one of the greatest libraries in the Middle ...

  7. Saint Columba (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    St. Columba's Church (disambiguation) Columba (disambiguation) Columbanus (540–615), also known as St. Columban, was an Irish missionary; Santa Coloma (disambiguation) St Columb (disambiguation) St. Columba's Church (disambiguation)

  8. St. Columban Catholic Church, Chillicothe - Wikipedia

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    This is the history of St. Columban parish in Chillicothe, Missouri. Current exterior of the church. The first St. Columban church was built in 1858 by John Joseph Hogan, who became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Joseph in 1868. [1] In 1872, St. Joseph's Academy boarding and day school (to the left) began its 97-year tradition.

  9. Edward Galvin - Wikipedia

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    In 1916, he returned to Ireland to found a society of missionary priests dedicated to the conversion of China, the Missionary Society of St. Columban. On 4 September 1916, he met a young professor from the Maynooth seminary, Fr. John Blowick, at Fr. Tom Ronayne's lodgings in Monkstown, County Dublin. On 10 October 1916, they received permission ...