The latest pilgrimage to Iona began June 11 at St. Columba’s Cathedral in the west coast town of Oban, where Bishop Brian McGee of Argyll and the Isles celebrated a 6 a.m. Mass for the pilgrimage.

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 ...

Surprisingly, we actually know a great deal that is verifiable by other sources about this itinerant Irish monk. St. Columba, Abbot of Iona, was born in Garten, County Donegal, Ireland on Dec. 7, 521.

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 ...

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. ... Columba's Iona was very different.

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 ...

St Columba could raise the dead, ... “Celtic Christianity can be romanticised and put up in a mystical cloud,” says Catriona Robertson, warden of Iona Abbey. “But Columba was earthly: ...

St. Columba’s Day, June 9, serves as harbinger for summer the way Teresa’s feast day fills that role for fall. ... Iona, however, through my cousin, found a way to me.

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. St Columba could raise the dead, turn water into wine and supposedly once battled the Loch Ness monster ...