An "excellent opportunity to live and work in a beautiful and unique place" has come up, with a hotel on the tiny island of ...

Iona is a tiny island in the Inner Hebrides, situated off the Ross of Mull on Scotland's west coast. It is described as the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland after St Columba and a dozen ...

The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Through 1400 years of history its fortunes have fluctuated, from its heights as one of the greatest ...

The traditional opinion of how Columba came to Scotland states that after being ordained as into the priesthood in Ireland, Columba became involved in a violent quarrel with a colleague. The quarrel ...

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Before he died, St. Columba had made a prophecy: In lona of my heart, Iona of my love, Instead of monks’ voices shall be lowing of cattle, But ere the world come to an end, lona shall be as it was.

or have a more serene walk on the tiny isle of Iona off the west coast of Mull, considered to be the birthplace of western Christianity with its abbey built by St Columba. There is time ...

Famed as the “Cradle of Christianity in Scotland,” St. Columba arrived on Iona in 563AD and founded a monastery, sparking the spread of Christianity throughout Scotland and beyond. The ...

DURING my series on the ancient history of Scotland’s towns and villages, I promised I would write about the history of our country’s ...

Mr Lynch pointed out that before he went to Iona with Columba, St Odhran founded a monastery and school in Latteragh. Under the Devil’s Bit, the MacEgans of Aghnameadle had a college in which scholars ...