Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
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March 16
June 9
Virgin
Martyr
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 51 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
The great glory of the virgin martyr, Columba of Sens, has eclipsed the fame of the other two saintly virgin martyrs of this name. Of the S. Columba venerated in Cornwall on this day, nothing is known, but she is believed to have formed one of the company of S. Ursula.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on March 16 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
The great glory of the virgin martyr, Columba of Sens, has eclipsed the fame of the other two saintly virgin martyrs of this name. Of the S. Columba [Irish abbot of Iona (d. 597), apostle of Scotland] venerated in Cornwall on this day, nothing is known, but she is believed to have formed one of the company of S. Ursula.
Feast: June 9
Traditional: March 16
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Columba's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Columba at Bridei's fort.jpg · J. R. Skelton (Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton; 1865–1927) (illustrator), erroneously credited as John R. Skelton · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
Image: J. R. Skelton (Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton; 1865–1927) (illustrator), erroneously credited as John R. Skelton, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
