St. Dominic of Silos was born in 1000, in Navarre, Spain. He was a peasant, and as a young man, he worked as a shepherd until he entered the Benedictine monastery at Navarre. When the king of Navarre ...

Colman and came to Ireland in 668, 4 years after the Synod of Whitby, where he settled in Innisboffin. There was tension between the Irish and English monks, and Colman founded a separate monastery ...