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Columbanus and the Merovingian Church

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Although controversies surrounding the date of Easter had occurred from the late second century, the struggle between those who used the Celtic-84 and those supporting the Victorian table first enters the historical sources in late-sixth-century Merovingian Gaul. During this period an Irish monk named Columbanus and his followers left Ireland and settled for a time in the Merovingian kingdom of Burgundy. As they believed that the Celtic-84 was the correct table, and as the Church in Gaul had decided to follow the Victorian table, conflict soon broke out.

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Corning, C. (2006). Columbanus and the Merovingian Church. In: The Celtic and Roman Traditions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601154_2

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