Columbinus of Lure

Columbinus of Lure was an Irish monk who came to the continent with Saint Columbanus of Luxeuil. He was abbot at Lure, where he succeeded his godfather, Saint Deicolus (Del) of Lure, in the abbatial see. Both bodies were venerated in the abbey church of Lure until the Revolution. Columbinus appears with Saint Columbanus of Luxeuil in the painting The Saints of the Vosges. He is commemorated on 13 September, in the Western calendar (new style); he is also in the synaxarion of a Western Orthodox publication. A saint of the undivided Church.