The Catholic Encyclopedia

St. Columba (of Spain)

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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(2) Sr. Columba, a Spanish nun, of whom it is related that she was beheaded by the Moors at the monastery of Tabanos in 853. Her body is said to have been thrown into the Guadalquivir, but was rescued by the Christians. Her relics were kept and venerated in Old Castile at two churches, the priory of St. Columba and the royal Abbey of Our Lady at Nagara. _, Burien, Lives of the Saints, 111, 491; Suysxen in Acta SS., Sept., V, 618 sqq.; Bibl. hagiogr. lat. (1899), 283 sq.

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Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907-1908. Public domain.