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Comgall was a friend to future saints Cormac, Brendan, and Canice. It is believed that among the monks trained by Comgall at Bangor, were Columbanus of Luxeuil-les-Bains (21 or 23 November) and Saint Moluag (25 June). After a period of intense suffering, Comgall received the Eucharist from Saint Fiacre and died
A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. Comgall, or Congal, Saint, was born in 516, of a distinguished Dalaradian family. As he grew up, religious yearnings pressed on him; he travelled, and found a home with St. Fintan at Clonenagh. Repressing his dislike to the severity of the discipline, he continued there some time, and was afterwards ...
Comgall (d. 602), founder and first abbot of the monastery of Bennchor (Bangor, Co. Down), was born into the tribal territory of Dál nAraide in north-east Ulster in the early sixth century (506 Ann. Inisf.; 515 AU; his genealogy is given in LL, 348d33). One of his Latin Lives states that he received his first monastic training from a cleric ...
Shop St. Comgall. Abbot and teacher of St. Columbanus and the monks who evangelized France and central Europe. He was born about 516 in Ylster, Ireland, and studied under St. Fintan at Cluain Eidnech Monastery. After living under a harsh rule as a hermit, Comgall founded a monastery in Bangor. He was abbot for eight thousand monks.
10 May, 2012. Summary: St Comgall founded his monastery at Bangor, Co Down, and he still appears at the top of the town’s official coat of arms. Patrick Duffy tells his story. Birth. C omgall was born in the Dal Riada area of the north-east coast of Ireland (Co Antrim) about 517. Magheramorne near Larne lays a claim to being his birth-place.
Saint Comgall of Bangor, also known as Comgall of Ireland, was born around 510 in Dalaradia, near Magheramorne, in County Antrim, Ireland. He was the son of Sedna and dedicated his life to the service of God from an early age. Comgall started his spiritual journey under the tutelage of Saint Fintan of Clonenagh and Saint Kieran at Clonmacnoise.
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Comgall, Saint, founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor, flourished in the sixth century.The year of his birth is uncertain, but according to the testimony of the Irish annals it must be placed between 510 and 520; his death is said to have occurred in 602 (“Annals of Tighernach” and “Chronicon Scotorum”), or 597 (Annals of Innisfallen).
