Cumianus

For other Irish saints of this name, see Cumméne.

Cumianus (c. 641 – c. 736) was an Irish monk who became abbot of San Columbano di Bobbio around 715. He left Ireland as an old man. The intricately carved lid of his sarcophagus, containing a lengthy epitaph, was made by one Master John and commissioned by King Liutprand.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Nicholas Everett, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568–774 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 251–54.
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