Att text: St. Colmán is named as author in Colgan’s Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, and Coleman (1910) assumes his authorship too. However, the attribution is not decisive.

¹ To the bishop she was told, “What do women have in common with monks? Stay away, and we admit no other woman to this island.”

² Then she said to the bishop, “If you believe that my spirit can receive Christ, why do you reject me in body?”

³ “I truly believe it,” he said, “but we have never allowed any woman to enter here. Still, may the Lord be your comfort.”

⁴ “Return again to the world, so that you do not become a scandal to us. Though your heart is pure, you bear the body of a woman.” [1 Peter 3:3]