Columban, St., an Irish missionary, who, with twelve companions, settled in Gaul in 585; founded two monasteries, but was banished for the offence of rebuking the king; went to Italy, founded a monastery at Bobbio, where he died 616.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Columba, St. * Columbia