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d. 616 Ireland

Columbanus (543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.

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God is everywhere; he is immense and everywhere present, according to what he said about himself: I am a God nearby and not a God far away (cf. Jer 23, 23).

If, therefore, anyone wants to know what he must believe, he must realize that he will not be able to understand more by speaking about it than by believing.

So let us not seek God as if he were far from us, because we can have him within us.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Columbanus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.