THE VOYAGE OF ST COLUMBANUS—REDRAWING THE MAP
By Andrew Totten Around AD 590, somewhere along the east coast of Ireland, St Columbanus was waiting to go into exile. On reaching Burgundy—one of the kingdoms of Merovingian Gaul—he would found a series of monasteries to which people would flock. Eventually falling foul of the king, he travelled through France and Germany to Switzerland, … Read more