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

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 ...

On Iona, a small island on the west coast of Scotland, ... They then held a procession to Iona Abbey, rebuilt in the 20th century at the site of St. Columba’s community.

It is believed to have been written c.630 by Beccan mac Luigdech: a member of Iona’s early community administration. The name Colum Cille is Columba's Gaelic name. 'In Praise of Colum Cille' ...

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: ...

Alec McNab reflects on his early years in Scotland and training on Iona's Dun I.

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.

Even though it is small, there is plenty to get up to on Iona when you are not working. Port Ban Beach and St Columba's Bay are just some of the extraordinary beaches around the island, while the ...

The St. Columba Hotel is situated just off Mull on the historic Isle of Iona, set in a former church minister's house built in 1846. The hotel is currently recruiting a Restaurant Manager on a ...

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 ...