Sure, Scotland has beautiful popular destinations like Glasgow and Edinburgh, but you might also love this quiet and ...

Catholic pilgrims have again returned to Iona, the coastal island where St. Columba launched the evangelization of Scotland more than 1,400 years ago. Sixty people walked for dozens of miles from ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the remains of the cell of St Columba on the Scottish island of Iona. They have used radiocarbon dating to place samples of burned wood in the middle of ...

Perhaps Nessie never existed. Or perhaps St. Columba managed to rid us of the monster permanently.

Iona was a place of remoteness and quiet, little changed, I imagined, from the island Columba found when he landed in the sixth century. I felt its isolation when I walked alone to Sandeels Bay in the ...

Iona's fame began in 563 AD when Columba, with thirteen followers, landed at the south end of the island, at St Columba's Bay, to establish a monastery.

They will row and sail their craft so as to reach Iona at Pentecost, which this year falls on June 2, for it was on the eve of Pentecost in 563 that St. Columba, sailing from Derry with 12 ...

The Presbyterians suggest that Columba, source of what we now label “Celtic Spirituality,” came to Iona of his own accord and not as an emissary of the Vatican.

Secret beaches and sacred spaces on a paddling adventure to Iona and the Ross of Mull Sea kayaking in St Columba’s wake on x (opens in a new window) ...

St Columba arrived on Iona from Ireland in the year 563. His Gaelic name is Colum Cille - "the dove of the Church". He is widely credited as one of the key figures who brought Christianity to ...

St Columba arrived on Iona from Ireland in the year 563. His Gaelic name is Colum Cille - "the dove of the Church". He is widely credited as one of the key figures who brought Christianity to ...