June 9 is the feast day of St. Columba of Iona, who along with Patrick and Brigid, is one of Ireland's three patron saints. Columba is also known as the ...

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 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.

Columba and his companions settled on Iona — a small island off the western tip of the Isle of Mull, what must then have seemed the frontier of the known world, where the last shards of Eurasia ...

I'M all for the work of the Iona Community ("Iona plea for £500,000 so pilgrims can still progress", The Herald, July 2), but there is… ...

THE obituary of the late Peter Macdonald (The Herald, March 4) persists with the age-old myth that when St Columba arrived in Scotland, it was to what we know today as the island of Iona. This is ...

Outrage at desecration of St Columba’s grave on Iona WOULD-be grave robbers are feared to have targeted the ancient Hebridean site where St Columba ... why passenger planes are always painted white.

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 ...

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 ...