英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-19 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—16
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Irish monks2 would carry their Gospel across the seas. Men like Brendan the Voyager,
Colum Cille in the Irish kingdom of Dal Riata in Scotland, or Aidain at Lindisfarne in Northumbria.
“Now”, the Lord had said, “Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee.”
The words of Abraham, from the Old
Testament3, and they would echo in the minds of Irish monks. At their heart, a simple concept, in the Latin potior peregrinatio, a lifelong pilgrimage for Christ. And it would bring some of those Irish
clergy4 here to the lands at the heart of the old Roman Empire.
The monks arriving in northern Italy in 613 had already established
monasteries5 in Gaul. Their
zeal6 persuaded the powerful king of the Lombards to offer them land at Bobbio, in the Apennines. These Irish churchmen brought their own version of Christianity. They were told to avoid earthly temptation and Church power. “Fear women and
bishops7”, their leader said.
He was
austere8 and querulous and a fierce disciplinarian. His name was Columbanus. It meant ''dove''- But this reforming Irish
monk1 railed against the abuse of power, sparing neither clergy nor princes from his
censure9. Columbanus even had the
temerity10 to confront the Pope. It was a complex dispute about the dating of Easter.
To Columbanus, it wasn't simply spiritual pedantics, he felt he was
standing11 up for something he truly believed in. And when the Gallic bishops summoned him to account for himself, he simply refused to go. He saw them as an
elite12, ministering only to the chosen few.
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