Kilian of Cologne,
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
Abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ...
, died 19 January 1003
Kilian was a native of
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
. In 974, he and a group of Irish
missionaries, led by
Minnborinus of Cologne
Minnborinus of Cologne ( fl. 974–986) was an Irish abbot and saint active in Germany.
Minborinus was the leader of a group of missionaries from Ireland who travelled to Cologne, Germany. Upon arriving, the Archbishop of Cologne, Warin of Colo ...
(died 986), arrived at
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
where they established St. Martin's Abbey in an island on the
Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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. Minnborinus ruled as first abbot; upon his death, Kilian succeeded him.
J.F. Hogan says of him ''"Kilian, was appointed to succeed him. He is described as a very religious man; and, we are told, that the Archbishop, Evergerus, with the consent of the Emperor Otho III., presented to him, for the use of his monastery and pilgrim monks, several farms, with the fishing of the Rhine attached; three churches, several manses, vineyards, and exemption from some of the taxes in the city and in the empire. He also got charge of the monastery of St. Pantaleon, in the city, as well as of St. Martin's. It is evident there must have been Irish monks in the former as well as in the latter of these monasteries."''
He died 19 January 1003, after which date the abbey appears to have declined in its Irish connection.
See also
*
Tilmo
Tilmo, Irish missionary, fl. 690.
Background
Tilmo was a native of Ireland, though from what region is unknown. He had once been a soldier, then became a monk, and finally a preacher.
Cologne
Egbert of England and Wigbert tried and failed to c ...
*
Marianus Scotus
Marianus Scotus (1028–1082 or 1083) was an Irish monk and chronicler. He authored the ''Chronica Clara'', a history of the world.
Name
Marianus Scotus is Latin for " Marian the Scot", although that term at the time was still inclusive of ...
*
Schottenklöster
The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian France. Celtic Christianity sp ...
References
* ''Irish Monasteries in Germany'', J.F. Hogan, pp. 526–535, ''Irish Ecclesiastical Record'', 4th series, Vol. 3, 1898.
External links
Saint of the Day, July 18: ''Minnborinus of Cologne''at ''SaintPatrickDC.org''
1003 deaths
10th-century Irish abbots
11th-century Irish abbots
Irish expatriates in Germany
Year of birth unknown
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