Editing Celtic Christianity (section)

===Rule of Columbanus===
The monasteries of the Irish missions, and many at home, adopted the Rule of Saint Columbanus, which was stricter than the [[Rule of Saint Benedict]], the main alternative in the West.  In particular there was more [[fasting]] and an emphasis on [[corporal punishment]]. For some generations monks trained by Irish missionaries continued to use the Rule and to found new monasteries using it, but most converted to the Benedictine Rule over the 8th and 9th centuries.{{efn|The main source for Columbanus's life or vita is recorded by [[Jonas of Bobbio]], an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the Saint's death; Jonas wrote the life c. 643. This author lived during the abbacy of Attala, Columbanus's immediate successor, and his informants had been companions of the saint. Mabillon in the second volume of his "Acta Sanctorum O.S.B." gives the life in full, together with an appendix on the miracles of the saint, written by an anonymous member of the Bobbio community.}}