St. Colman's ruins: Irish Christianity on a windswept island
Born in Connacht and educated in the famed Scottish monastery of Iona, Colman was the third abbot of Lindisfarne, after Aidan and Finian.
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Born in Connacht and educated in the famed Scottish monastery of Iona, Colman was the third abbot of Lindisfarne, after Aidan and Finian.
The name itself, Montevergine, can be translated as “the Virgin’s mountain.” However, that was not always the case.