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Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume XII: December. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.

December 31

St. Columba, Virgin and Martyr

 
THE NEW Paris Breviary fixes her death either in 258 or in 273. The latter date reduces it to the journey which Aurelian took into Gaul in that year, when he gained a great victory at Chalons. She suffered at Sens. Her relics were kept in the Benedictin abbey till they were dispersed by the Huguenots, together with those of many other saints kept there, as Baillet observes. St. Owen, in his life of St. Eligius, mentions a chapel which bore her name at Paris.  1