Cumian

Saint Cumian was an Irish monk who became abbot of San Colombano at Bobbio in Italy around the year 715. He was born around 641 and reposed around 736. Another list says that he had been a bishop in Ireland, and that in old age he went to Italy and lived as a monk at Bobbio.

The epitaph carved on the lid of his sarcophagus, written in rhythmic hexameters, says that Ireland sent him as an old man to the lands of Italy and that, settled at Bobbio for love of the Lord, he kept the teaching of the venerable Columbanus, watching, fasting, tireless in prayer. It describes him as gentle, wise, pious and peaceable to all the brothers, and says that he lived ninety years plus five years and four months, that is, nearly ninety-⁠five years. The richly carved lid was made by a Master John at the command of Liutprand, king of the Lombards, whom the epitaph mentions asking the saint to pray for him.

He is commemorated on 9 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.