"On the seventh day of the mid-winter month [December] Colum Cille was born, and on the ninth day of the mid-summer month [June] he died. And fitting to Colum Cille's life was the season he came into it, for wintry was his life in respect of cold and darkness, pain and penance, and in respect of his inflicting hardship and discomfort on his own body. And, further, fitting to the life he entered from this world was the season when he died, for it is the season that is purest and warmest and brightest and most shining of all the year. And it was fitting that Almighty God gave us an example through the life and death of his devoted servant, Colum Cille, inasmuch from the dark, sad and gloomy winter of his life in this world he took him to the glorious, radiant summer of eternal life."
Brian Lacey, ed., The Life of Colum Cille by Manus O'Donnell (Dublin, 1998), p.228
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