SUCCEEDED his master St. Columban in that charge, in 611. He sanctified
himself by humility, continual prayer, watching, and fasting; was the
spiritual father of six hundred monks, and of many holy bishops and
saints, and died in 625. He is named in the Martyrologies of Ado, and in
the Roman. See his life by Jonas, his colleague, in the Bollandists, and
in Mabillon.