The pilgrimage reliquary contains the relics of St. Columba, St. Andrew, and St. Margaret of Scotland, the country’s patron saints. Pilgrims traveled on foot and by ferry from the Scottish west coast, ...

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Engineers are starting work to give the historic island of Iona – the cradle of Christianity in Scotland – an ultrafast broadband tech boost. A mile off the much bigger Isle of Mull in the Inner ...

Despite a life of exile, Colmcille’s appeal endures in the north and northwest of Ireland. On Iona, a small island on the west coast of Scotland, St. Colmcille ...

Artifacts on display at the Dublin city museum, as part of "Colmcille: Sacred objects of a Saint – 1500 years of devotion", include the Shrine of the Cathach, the Bell of St. Columba, and the Crozier ...

A dozen young men plan to embark at Derry in Northern Ireland in May, 1963. Partly Scots and partly Irish, they will represent several denominations. They will row and sail their craft so as to reach ...