Columba marmion biography

Bl. Columba Marmion was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 1 April to an Irish father (William Marmion) and a French mother (Herminie Cordier).

Columba marmion biography

Given the name Joseph Aloysius at birth, he entered the Dublin diocesan seminary in and completed his theological studies at the College of the Propagation of the Faith in Rome. He was ordained a priest at St Agatha of the Goths on 16 June

He dreamed of becoming a missionary monk in Australia, but was won over by the liturgical atmosphere of the newly founded Abbey of Maredsous in Belgium, which he visited on his return to Ireland in His Bishop asked him to wait and appointed him curate in Dundrum, then professor at the major seminary in Clonliffe ().

As the chaplain at a convent of Redemptorist nuns and at a women's prison, he learned to guide souls, to hear confessions, to counsel and to help the dying.

In he received his Bishop's permission to become a monk. He voluntarily renounced a promising ecclesias