Tag: culdees monasticism

the Monastic Rule of St Comgall, Culdee Saint and “Chief of Ireland’s Monks”

The Rule of Saint Comgall Saint Comgall, founder of the monastery of Bangor, was trained by St Finnian and became a disciple of St Tigernach of Clones. He instructed several great Culdees including St Columbanus. The Rule of Comgall, as referred to by Saint Adamnan, exists as handed down, in a text from the late […]

On Celtic Married Clergy and Monastics

Culdees’ Abbots, Priests, Monks and even Nuns were married in purity with periods of separation for their courses of services.     by Rev Dr Stephen MK Brunswick This topic is validated by the records of Rome in protest against married Celtic Clergy being repugnant to their tradition (although the East also practiced it). However […]