ST COLUMBA Feast Day 9 June Our Patron was born c. 521 in County Donegal and baptised Colm or Colum – which in Gaelic means dove. Translated into Latin it is Columba. In later life he was commonly called Colmcille. St Bede, the Father of English history, considered his name was a combination of Columba […]
Short snippets of key moments in our parish history with its beginnings in 1886 (as part of Bulli Parish) with the current church dating to 1913 and the Corrimal parish to 1940…
ST COLUMBKILLE’S CATHOLIC PARISH PRIMARY SCHOOL http://www.sccdow.catholic.edu.au/ Since 1904 St Columbkille’s School has provided an education, founded in a catholic ethos, for the children of Corrimal and surrounding suburbs. From humble beginnings in an enclosed verandah of a cottage in neighbouring Midgley Street, the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus opened
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