Minnborinus of Cologne
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Minnborinus of Cologne, Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 Abbot
Abbot
The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...

, fl. 974-986.

Minborinus was the leader of a group of missionaries from Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 who travelled to Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, Germany
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. Upon arriving, the Archbishop of Cologne, Warin of Cologne
Warin of Cologne
Warin was the Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, from 976 to 984.-Life:Warin's origins are not recorded. He became a cleric of the Cathedral in Cologne....

, made Minnborinus abbott of St. Martin's Abbey (now Great St. Martin Church
Great St. Martin Church
The Great Saint Martin Church is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was later transformed into a Benedictine monastery...

) in the city and installed the rest of the group in the abbey. Minnborinus governed St. Martin's from 974 till his death on 15 August 986. He was succeeded by his fellow countryman, Kilian of Cologne
Kilian of Cologne
Kilian of Cologne, Irish Abbot, died 19th January 1003Kilian was a native of Ireland. In 974, he and a group of Irish missionaries, led by Minnborinus of Cologne , arrived at Cologne where they established St. Martin's Abbey in an island on the Rhine...

 (died 19 January 1003).

Because St. Martin's was declared an Irish abbey, there were many dedications to Irish saints in the area, with five churches and seven chapels dedicated to Saint Brigid alone.

His feast-day is celebrated on 18 July.

Reference

  • Irish Monasteries in Germany, J.F. Hogan, pp. 526–535, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 4th series, Vol. 3, 1898.

External links

  • http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0718.shtml
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/s4irishecclesias03dubluoft#page/526/mode/2up
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