Columba lived in the late 3rd century in Sens, a Roman city in what is now France. According to tradition, she was a teenager.
She was a Christian in a society where loyalty was shown through public rituals. People did not need to believe. They only needed to comply.
Columba was a normal, ordinary teenager.
When asked to take part in Roman religious rites, she refused.
Roman authority survived because people went along with it. When even one ordinary person chose not to, something became visible.
Columba’s refusal was quiet, but it stood. So the response was final.
She was executed.
The order that required her obedience did not survive. Those who enforced it faded from memory. The name of a teenage girl remained, along with the faith she refused to abandon.
Today, that same faith is what still inspires.
⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ
