The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (559 page)

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Colours, liturgical
:
Columba, St
(
c.
521–97).
Christian abbot and missionary, trained in Irish monasteries, who, in
c.
563 established himself and twelve companions on the island of Iona. He remained there as a base for evangelizing the Scottish mainland and establishing monasteries on other nearby islands. Though not a bishop, he exercised ecclesiastical authority in the area, and consecrated the new king of the Scots in 574. He is also known for three Latin poems and for his skill as a scribe. Feast day, 9 June.
Columbus Convention
:
Commandments
:
Common Life, Brothers and Sisters of
(Christian devotional movement)
:
Common Prayer, Book of
:
Communicatio idiomatum
(Lat., ‘interchange of properties’). A doctrine of
christology
put forward by several
patristic
writers. It emphasizes the separateness of the human and divine natures in Christ, but holds that what may only strictly be said of the one may also be said of the other, because of their union in the one person. It is most clearly stated in the
Tome
of Pope Leo (449).

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