Wenn das heutige #Europa sich daran erinnern und befolgen würde, was der heilige #Columban durch sein Leben und Wirken verkündet und bewirkt hat, würden weder #Trump noch #Putin nur das Kleinste versuchen, die europäischen Staaten zu spalten.

#Einheit in Verschiedenheit, #Verschiedenheit in der Einheit. Und das in #Harmonie mit der #Natur.

Wer mir dies nicht glauben will, sollte mal die #Geschichte Columbans und die Anfänge der #EU studieren.

#Weisheit #Heilige #Columbanus #Irland #Bildung

File:Columbanus at Bobbio.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

#Columbanus is believed to have died #OTD in 615. Probably the most famous Irish missionary of this era, he worked mainly in the Frankish & Lombard kingdoms.

He features in this post on Irish computus, telling the pope how to calculate Easter (as you do).

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/01/irish-computus/

"a distinguished scripture teacher, a master of Latin prose style and rhetoric, a competent versifier, an abbot, a founder of monasteries and monastic lawgiver" https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/columban-the-patron-saint-of-a-united-europe-1.961368

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Calculating Easter: Irish Computus to the Carolingian Renaissance

In his Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, c. 731 AD) Bede noted that the Irish (Scots) and Britons had differed from the rest of the Western Church regarding East…

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