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* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.

This author lived during the abbacy of Attala, Columbanus's immediate successor, and his informants had been companions of the saint.

Mabillon in the second volume of his " Acta Sanctorum O. S. B.

" gives the life in full, together with an appendix on the miracles of the saint, written by an anonymous member of the Bobbio community.