Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November 2018
Commemorating the life and legacy of Columbanus
SATURDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
10.30AM – St Comgall’s Church Hall
Columbanus today – the development of the Columban Way in Ireland and Europe
Derry Healy (Friends of St Columbanus Republic of Ireland) and Kenneth Irvine (Friends of Columbanus Bangor) describe recent developments in the establishment of the Columban Way across Europe and particularly in Ireland.
12.00 noon – light lunch provided by ANDBC
1.30PM – Bangor Abbey
Revindicating Columbanus: The Agrestius Affair, Bobbio, and the Writing of the Life of Columbanus
Alexander O’Hara, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews, looks at the way the Bobbio community responded to an attack on Columbanus’s legacy in 626 by commissioning the writing of the Life of Columbanus.
7.30pm Bangor Abbey (doors open 7.00pm)
‘Journey of a Single Day VI’
Jane Cassidy and Maurice Leyden, an evening of County Down songs and Inverbeg (a group of exciting young local musicians) – Mike Donaghy, local music man and gifted teacher
Short selected readings from Jonas’s Life of Columbanus – Rosalind McNeice
SUNDAY 25TH NOVEMBER
7.00PM – First Bangor Presbyterian Church
A United Celebration
Several of Bangor’s Churches come together to celebrate the life and legacy of Columbanus
Speaker – Rev. Donald Watts – previously Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and former Minister, Ballyholme Presbyterian Church