# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/columba-of-sens
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:13:23.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/columba-of-sens"
name: "Columba of Sens"
slug: "columba-of-sens"
description: "Columba of Sens, was a virgin and nun who was born to a noble pagan family in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. She left Gallaecia for Gaul as a child to avoid being denounced as a Christian and received the baptismal name Columba, meaning \"dove\" in French. She settled in Sens, France, where the Roman emperor Aurelian noticed her and tried to force her to marry his son. When she refused, he imprisoned her. She was protected from being burned alive by a female bear and a miraculous rain shower, but was finally beheaded. Columba was venerated throughout France; a chapel was later built over her relics and the Abbey of Sens, which at one time was a pilgrimage site in her honor, was eventually built there."
tagline: "Saintly virgin associated with Sens in France and a fountain named d'Azon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SantaColumba.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "257"
deathDate: "273"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.56
  momentum:             0.1463860933211345
  historical:           12.50659066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Coloma_de_Sens"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_de_Sens"
    title: "Columba de Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma_de_Sens"
    title: "Coloma de Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolumba_ze_Sens"
    title: "Kolumba ze Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolumba_von_Sens"
    title: "Kolumba von Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_of_Sens"
    title: "Columba of Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomba_de_Sens"
    title: "Colomba de Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombe_de_Sens"
    title: "Colombe de Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comba_de_Sens"
    title: "Comba de Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomba_di_Sens"
    title: "Colomba di Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_van_Sens"
    title: "Columba van Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comba_de_Sens"
    title: "Comba de Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Колумба из Санса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomba_av_Sens"
    title: "Colomba av Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolomba_wa_Sens"
    title: "Kolomba wa Sens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448171"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump