Talk:Colmán of Lann

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Saint Colman of Mullingar, son of Luachan, was an Irish saint born towards the end of the 6th century or the beginning of the 7th. He is best known through two hagiographical Lives that were written for him. Colman is credited for working a miracle in what became known as An Muileann gCearr, which in the Irish language means "Wry Mill", (in the English language Mullingar). The earliest Life is Betha Colmain Maic Luachain ("Life of Colman son of Luachain"), which is preserved only in a manuscript kept in the Rennes Library in Brittany. The modernised version is known as Betha Colmáin Lainne ("Life of Colmán of Lynn"). This converges somewhat the place of learning near Fore Abbey, Lough Lene, the lake of Learning, associated with the monks nearby, some 15 km north of Mullingar. Today, there still remains the name of the area next to Mullingar where St. Colman once dwelled, Lainn (which is anglicised as Lynn).

Hagiography
He was born at Portloman, on Lough Owel, (or also possibly at Less in Daire, where his father settled). Like most people at the time he also descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages. He had three other brothers and they all became priests also.

During his boyhood he herded cows. At the age of 30 he went to Lismore to study with Mochuta. Some time around 630, he became deacon and dispenser of food to lepers, where he got the nickname Lamh-glan, pronounced as, Lauve-glan ('Clean-hand'). Around 636 he was ordained and founded Cell Bec, followed by 'Lann' to signify, 'family of soil'.

He founded churches ....and died on the 17th July.... in the third or last quarter of the 7th century, and was then buried in Lann.

Colman's 6th-7th century cell foundations
The seven chief cemeteries, (Cells, seminaries), three of them were in Hui Forannain:


 * Less Dochiund
 * Lene
 * Carrac Leime-ind-Eich
 * Cell Uird in Munster
 * Cell Bec
 * Uachtar Comartha in Hui Thigernain
 * Lann Meic Luachain

These may have been the seven churches alluded to, the churches of his three brothers and of his seven sisters, for he is the head of them all, both sons and daughters, as his brothers and sisters became priests and nuns.

Note

 * Lynn is a district in Mullingar where once the monastery existed, closed by King Henry VII during the Anglo-Norman period of Mullingar's history.
 * Lough Lene is a lake surrounded by habitations and ring forts, upon fertile soil.
 * Lough Leane is a Killarney lake.
 * Lann was a close relation, most likely a brother to St. Colman

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