<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>
<p>On October 3, we in the Benedictine world had the option of celebrating Abbot Columba Marmion. He was a mountain of a man, both in his physical stature and his fame in the late 19th and 20th century Benedictine monasticism. He started out as a diocesan priest in Ireland, but he eventually inserted himself into a long line of Irish missionary monks, like his namesake Columba of Iona (who underwent voluntary exile for the sake of the gospel), joining Maredsous Abbey in Belgium. Eventually, he became abbot of that same monastery, but he also he traveled extensively throughout Europe preaching, in his words, "bringing people to God and God to people."</p>
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