All
we Irish dwelling on the edge of the world are disciples of Saints
Peter and Paul and of the disciples who, under the Holy Spirit, wrote
the Sacred Canon. We accept nothing outside this evangelical and
apostolic teaching. There was no heretic, no Jew, no schismatic, but
the Catholic Faith, as first delivered to us by you, the successor of
the apostles, is kept unshaken.... We, indeed, are, as I have said,
chained to the Chair of Saint Peter; for although Rome is great and
known afar, it is great and honored with us only by this Chair.
–-
Saint Columbanus of Luxieul
