Blessed Columba Marmion
Posted on 16. Apr, 2008, in Church Teachings, Faith and JusticeComments Off on Blessed Columba Marmion
This year marks the 150 anniversary of the birth of Dubliner Blessed Columba Marmion. During his lifetime, he was a curate in Dublin, Professor in Clonliffe College, a chaplain for Redemptorist nuns and a women’s prison before getting permission from his bishop to become a monk in 1886. Pat Coyle spoke to Fr. Jim Caffrey, Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Arran Quay, Dublin – where Bl. Columba was baptised, to hear about this man who was beatified by Pope John Paul the Second in 2000.