Abstract
Columba said, ‘the generous will never go to Hell; the rich spurn a close fellowship with God’. So sang an Irish poet (O Baoighill and O Baoill, 17-18, my translation) and such, indeed, is the reputation our Saint enjoys in the tradition of Ireland’s most northerly county, Donegal, ‘Generous Columba’, is how another song (Goan, 19) describes him, for gifts and bounty were ever a part of his image there. It was believed, moreover, that this was a gift the Saint had especially asked God for: ‘Y...
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