If you will forgive a little parochialism, today is the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), also called Columba, who is not celebrated in the universal calendar, but happens to be the patron my own diocese. He also hails originally from where my father’s family is from in Ireland, Donegal on the wild west coast of the emerald isle. Columbkille means ‘dove of the Church’, a name he may have adopted in the monastery. His name does not quite fit …
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