Catholic pilgrims have again returned to Iona, the coastal island where St. Columba launched the evangelization of Scotland more than 1,400 years ago. Sixty people walked for dozens of miles from ...

St Columba arrived on Iona from Ireland in the year 563. His Gaelic name is Colum Cille ... He is widely credited as one of the key figures who brought Christianity to Scotland.

And yesterday leading politicians from Scotland and Ireland met to celebrate the 1,450th ... “St Columba’s journey to Iona is just one of the many events which have created our ...

BBC Scotland's History article ... within 50 years, they had extinguished the light which had been Iona. Columba's relics were finally removed in 849 ... probably contained a relic of St Columba.

If you go Caledonian MacBrayne ferry information: www.calmac.co.uk For information on touring the abbey: www.ionahistory.org.uk The Iona Community: www.iona.org ...

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 ...

Located on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, ... St Columba was Abbot of Iona from the date of the monastery’s foundation (563 AD) till his death (597 AD).

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… ...

Catholic pilgrims have again returned to Iona, the coastal island where St. Columba launched the evangelization of Scotland more than 1,400 years ago.

St Columba arrived on Iona from Ireland in the year 563. ... Historic Environment Scotland are funding the project as part of Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017.

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 ...