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Bobbio

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Bobbio (bôb`byō), town, in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy. It is a commercial center and a summer resort. St. Columban Columban, Saint , c.540–615, Irish missionary to the continent of Europe, also called Columbanus. He was trained in the abbey at Bangor. He and 12 companions, including St. Gall, sailed to France (c.
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 founded a monastery there in 612, and during the 9th–12th cent. it was a center of European cultural life. The monastery later declined, and the invaluable manuscripts of its great library were dispersed in the 15th and 16th cent. The monastery itself was dissolved in the early 19th cent.


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According to Bobbio Missal, a Gallican sacramentary manuscript produced in Merovingian, France, the celebration of Palm Sunday wasn't popular in the West until about the eighth century.
The submission of many coastal and inland parishes reaching as far as the dio- ceses of Tortona, Bobbio, and Brugnato, were the consequences of many donations.
 
 
 
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