The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

Adomnán, the 7th century abbot of Iona, records Colonsay as Colosus and Tiree as Ethica, both of which may be pre-Celtic names.

* Adomnán – or Saint Eunan, Abbot of Iona 679 – 704.

Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona who died in 704, mentions similar free standing ringed wooden crosses, later replaced by stone versions.

Adomnán reports that Rhydderch sent a monk named Luigbe to Iona to speak with Columba " for he wanted to learn whether he would be slaughtered by his enemies or not ".

There he met Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, who showed him an island in Loch Leven ( later called St Serf's Inch ).

Aldfrith was a close friend of Adomnán, Abbot of Iona from 679, and may have studied with him.

Adomnán of Iona, writing less than 150 years after Diarmait's death, describes him as " ordained by God's will as king of all Ireland.

* Adomnán of Iona, Life of St Columba, tr.

The earliest report of a monster associated with the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written in the 7th century.

Adomnán in his Life of Saint Columba offers a longer account, which Abbot Ségéne had heard from Oswald himself.

* Adomnán, Life of Saint Columba translated and edited Richard Sharpe.

* Adomnán, Life of St Columba, tr.

* Adomnán, Life of St Columba, tr.

He was a contemporary of Saint Columba, and much that is recorded of his life and career comes from hagiography such as Adomnán of Iona's Life of Saint Columba.

In book three, Adomnán describes different apparitions of the Saint, both that Columba receives and those that are seen by others regarding him.

According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events he described, the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness.

Saint Serf is said to have been a contemporary of St. Mungo, also known as Saint Kentigern, though if he in fact lived at the same time as Adomnán, this is chronologically impossible.

A Celtic Christian monastery was founded there in the sixth century ; Adomnán names Saint Columba as founder.

Adomnán categorizes the Vita Columbae into three different books: Columba ’ s Prophecies, Columba ’ s Miracles, and Columba ’ s Apparitions.

Adomnán tells of Columba ’ s prophetic revelations in the first book.

According to Adomnán, Columba came across a group of Picts burying a man who had been killed by the monster.

Whereas Adomnán just tells us that Columba visited Bridei, Bede relates a later, perhaps Pictish tradition, whereby the saint actually converts the Pictish king.

While very little in the way of Pictish writing has survived, Pictish history since the late 6th century is known from a variety of sources, including Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, saints ' lives such as that of Columba by Adomnán, and various Irish annals.

* Clancy, Thomas Owen, " Columba, Adomnán and the Cult of Saints in Scotland " in Broun & Clancy ( 1999 ).

His succession as king may have been contested ; Adomnán states that Columba had favoured the candidacy of Áedán's brother Eoganán.

Adomnán claims that Áedán was ordained as king by Columba, the first example of an ordination known in Britain and Ireland.

However, Adomnán the chronicler of the life of Columba, notes that Brendan the Navigator set sail from Ireland to visit Columba and unexpectedly found him en route at Hinba.

They carry the names of the saints of Tir Conail-Dallan, Conal and Fiacre, Adomnán, Baithen and Barron, Nelis and Mura, Fionán and Davog, Cartha and Caitríona, Taobhóg, Cróna and Ríanach, Ernan and Asica and Columba.

Like tales are told of Muirchertach mac Ercae and Adomnán records that Columba prophesied a similar death, by wounding, falling and drowning, for Áed Dub.

Likewise, the Cáin Adomnáin ( Law of Adomnán, Lex Innocentium ) counts Nechtan's brother Bridei among its guarantors.

In the 7th century Adomnán mentions " Rechru " and " Rechrea insula " and these may also have been early names for Rathlin.

Adomnán, the Senchus fer n-Alban and the Irish annals record Áedán as a son of Gabrán mac Domangairt ( died c. 555 – 560 ).

Áedán's brother Eoganán is known from Adomnán and his death is recorded c. 597.

Although nothing is known of Cuildach and Domangart or their descendants, Adomnán mentions a certain Ioan, son of Conall, son of Domnall, " who belonged to the royal lineage of the Cenél nGabráin ", but this is generally read as meaning that Ioan was a kinsman of the Cenél nGabráin, and his grandfather named Domnall is not thought to be the same person as Áedán's brother Domnall.

The church on Iona Road is called Saint Columba's.

Its modern Gaelic name means " Iona of ( Saint ) Columba " ( formerly anglicised " Icolmkill ").

The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald ca.

He is believed to be buried on Saint Columba's Holy Island of Iona in or around the monastery.

* Saint Columba, the Irish missionary, founds his mission to the Picts and his monastery on Iona.

Lindisfarne on the east coast was founded from Iona by Saint Aidan in about 635, and was to remain the major Northumbrian monastic centre, producing figures like Wilfrid and Saint Cuthbert.

Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.

The school's houses are named after important locations in the life of the Saint: Dunblane ( Yellow ), Elgin ( Green ), Iona ( Purple ), Kelso ( Blue ), Lindisfarne ( White ) and Melrose ( Red ).

The conference was founded in 1980 by six charter members: the U. S. Military Academy, Fairfield University, Fordham University, Iona College, Manhattan College and Saint Peter's College.

The accepted etymology is that the settlement was originally named after Saint Cummein of Iona who built a church there.

) Spes Scotorum: Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.

Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.

Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.

It is said that he gave Iona to Saint Columba.

In 2010 Saint Peter's College Mens Soccer term earned their 2nd MAAC Championship title defeating Iona College 2 – 1.

The island was most probably named after the Irish Saint Ternan ( also known as Taran or Torannan, see also Taranis ), although another theory, reported by Saint Adomnan of Iona, suggests that Taran may have been the son of a Noble Pictish family.

Many occur in religious contexts such as used by the monks following Saint Patrick ; moreover, his successors carried on the architectural tradition in the Scottish Isle of Iona and eventually via Aidan to the eastern English Islands of Farne and Holy Island.

Named after the Abbot of Iona Saint Eunan, a native of Donegal and patron saint of the Diocese of Raphoe, it celebrated its centenary in 2006.

A contemporary of the better known Saint Columba of Iona and disciple of Saint Comgall, he was prior of Bangor Abbey in County Down, Ireland before making his missionary voyage to Scotland.