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, ...

Off Scotland’s west coast, Iona was one of medieval Britain’s earliest Christian centres. Now, it offers space for stillness, reflection and retreat.

In 1957, the British archaeologist Charles Thomas developed an unprovable hunch. He had excavated a wooden hut on the Scottish island of Iona, and came to believe that it had been used by Saint ...

Baile Mòr is the only village on the island of Iona, a Scottish isle that's drawn travelers for centuries. Ian Masterson, Alamy Hemmed by white sand beaches and a bright blue sea, Scotland's Iona ...

From Ireland in his little coracle the missionary-saint, Columba, sailed to the isle of lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland’s west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona’s misty, rainy four square ...