
Ambassador Frances Collins, Irish ambassador to the Holy See, with Archbishop Noel Treanor, Vatican Ambassador to the EU, and members of the Columban Sisters, who celebrate the centenary of their foundation this year.
Sarah Mac Donald
Catholics in Ireland can look back upon the days of Saint Columbanus and his contemporaries with much pride, the Irish Ambassador to the Holy See, Frances Collins, has said in a tribute to the early Irish Church missionary movement.
Launching an exhibition, “Ireland and the Birth of Europe”, on the legacy of St Columbanus and the Irish church in…