His contra Colmanus: Numquid, ait, Anatolius vir sanctus, et in praefata historia ecclesiastica multum laudatus, Legi vel Evangelio contraria sapuit, qui a quarta decima usque ad vicesimam pascha celebrandum scripsit? Numquid reverentissimum patrem nostrum Columbam, et successores eius viros Deo dilectos, qui eodem modo pascha facerunt, divinis paginis contraria sapuisse, vel egisse credendum est? Cum plurimi fuerint in eis, quorum sanctitati caelestia signa, et virtutum quae fecerunt miracula, testimonium praebuerunt: quos ipse sanctos esse non dubitans, semper eorum vitam, mores et disciplinam sequi non desisto.
To this Colman replied and said: How think ye? Did Anatolius, a holy man and much commended in the ecclesiastical history before of you alleged, think contrary to the Law and the Gospel, writing that Easter ought to be celebrated from the 14th unto the 20th day of the moon? Is it to be believed that our most reverend father Columba and his successors, men beloved of God, who after the same manner kept their Easter, thought or acted contrary to the divine pages? Seeing there were very many among them, to whose holiness witness was borne by heavenly signs and miracles of mighty works wrought by them: and as I doubt not but they were holy men, so I cease not myself ever to follow their life, manners and trade of discipline.
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