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Blessed Columba Marmion
Blessed Columba Marmion

Blessed Columba Marmion

Also known as: Joseph Marmion; Joseph Aloysius Marmion

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

January 30

Born

April 1, 57

Died

January 30, 1923

Beatified

3 September 2000 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter‘s Basilica, Rome, Italy

Biography

Blessed Columba Marmion, also known as Joseph Marmion and Joseph Aloysius Marmion, was born on April 1, 1858, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the son of an Irish father, William Marmion, and a French mother, Herminie Cordier. In 1874, Marmion entered the seminary in Dublin and continued his studies at the College for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome, Italy, from 1876.

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