Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

It was named after Colm Cille ( St Columba, 521 – 597 AD ), whose monasteries shaped and spanned the Gaelic world of Ireland and Scotland.

* 565 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

* Dom Columba Marmion OSB, Christ the Ideal of the Monk – Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic and Religious Life ( Engl.

* December 7 – Columba, Gaelic Irish missionary monk ( d. 597 )

* August 22 – St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

* June 9 – Saint Columba

* June 9 – Saint Columba

* Columba – or Saint Colmcille, one of the three patron saints of Ireland.

* Columba Cary-Elwes ( 1903 – 1994 ), British monk

* Star Tales – Columba

Neil Terence Columba Blaney ( 1 October 1922 – 8 November 1995 ) was an Irish politician.

Saint Brigit of Kildare, or Brigit of Ireland ( variants include Brigid, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd and Bride ), nicknamed Mary of the Gael () ( c. 451 – 525 ) is one of Ireland's patron saints along with Saints Patrick and Columba.

Columba species – at least those of Columba sensu stricto – are generally termed " pigeons ", and in many cases wood-pigeons.

** Madeiran Wood Pigeon, Columba palumbus maderensis – extinct ( early 20th century )

* Silvery Pigeon, Columba argentina – ( thought to be extinct, rediscovered in 2008 )

** Ogasawara Wood Pigeon, Columba janthina nitens – extinct ( 1980s )

* Bonin Wood Pigeon, Columba versicolor – extinct ( c. 1890 )

* Ryukyu Wood Pigeon, Columba jouyi – extinct ( late 1930s )

** Lord Howe Metallic Pigeon, Columba vitiensis godmanae – extinct ( 1853 )

* Lemon Dove, Columba larvata – sometimes placed in Aplopelia

** São Tomé Lemon Dove, Columba ( larvata ) simplex – sometimes placed in Aplopelia

Columba died on Iona and was buried in AD 597 by his monks in the abbey he created.

** Columba, Abbot of Iona: Ireland and Scotland, 597 CE ( Anglican Communion )

The illuminated manuscript Book of Kells was probably at least begun at Iona, although not by Columba as legend has it, as it dates from about 800 ( it may have been commissioned to mark the bicentennial of Columba's death in 597 ).

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

There are also religious works in Gaelic including the Elegy for St Columba by Dallan Forgaill, c. 597 and " In Praise of St Columba " by Beccan mac Luigdech of Rum, c. 677.

In Latin they include a " Prayer for Protection " ( attributed to St Mugint ), c. mid-6th century and Altus Prosator (" The High Creator ", attributed to St Columba ), c. 597.

It is traditionally associated with St. Columba ( died 597 ), and was identified as the copy made by him of a book loaned to him by St. Finnian, and which led to the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne in 561.

Its name derives from Tìr Iodh, ' land of the corn ', from the days of the 6th century Celtic missionary and abbot St Columba ( d. 597 ).

Probably the best-known is the cumdach for the Cathach of St. Columba, an important psalter which in fact seems to date from just after the death of Columba or Colum Cille in 597, but is still probably the earliest Irish book to survive and a very prestigious relic.

The Uí Néill as such, the name means " grandsons of Niall ", can only have existed in the time of Niall's grandsons, but its common usage may be later yet as an earlier term moccu Chuinn is attested as late as the time of Saint Columba ( died c. 597 ), a great-grandson of Niall's son Conall Gulban.

* Saint Columba ( Columkille ), Enlightener of Scotland, founder of the monastery at Iona ( 597 )

For other uses, see Columba ( disambiguation ), Saint Columba ( disambiguation ) and St Columb.

In the Antiphoner of Inchcolm Abbey, the " Iona of the East " ( situated on an island in the Firth of Forth ), a 13th century prayer begins O Columba spes Scotorum ... " O Columba, hope of the Scots ".

It is known that missionaries were active in sub-Roman Cumbria ( although the region was at least nominally Christian ), as indicated by several early church dedications to St. Columba and St Kentigern, also known as Cyndeyrn Garthwys.

These chapels are known as the " Chapels of the Tongues ", and they are devoted to St. Ansgar, patron of Denmark, who is venerated as an apostle to the Scandinavian countries ; St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans ; St. Columba, patron of Ireland and Scotland ; St. Savior ( Holy Savior ), devoted to immigrants from the east, especially Africa and Asia ; St. Martin of Tours, patron of the French ; St. Ambrose, patron of Italy ; and St. James, patron of Spain.

Compilers include Doc ( the puzzle editor as well as chief setter ), Dumpynose ( an anagram for ' Pseudonym ') and Columba.

In the sixth and seventh centuries, Irish monks established monastic institutions in parts of modern-day Scotland ( especially Columba, also known as Colmcille or, in Old Irish, Colum Cille ), and on the continent, particularly in Gaul ( especially Columbanus ).

( 58 ), sometimes known as the Book of Columba ) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.

These manuscripts include the Cathach of St. Columba, the Ambrosiana Orosius, fragmentary Gospel in the Durham Dean and Chapter Library ( all from the early 7th century ), and the Book of Durrow ( from the second half of the 7th century ).

It is the contention of the Church of Ireland that the church's continuation of the celebration of Irish saints ' days, including St Patrick ( 17 March ), St Bridget ( 1 February ) and St Columba ( 6 June ), is a continuation of the independant Celtic Christianity.

The genus name Columba is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek κόλυμβος ( kolumbos ), " a diver ", from κολυμβάω ( kolumbao ), " dive, plunge headlong, swim ".

Feral pigeons ( Columba livia ), also called city doves, city pigeons, or street pigeons, are derived from domestic pigeons that have returned to the wild.

On a much more intelligible level, the Abecedarian hymn Altus prosator, a sequence traditionally attributed to the 6th-century Irish mystic Saint Columba ( but see Stevenson, below ), shows many of the features of Hiberno-Latin ; the word prosator, the " first sower " meaning creator, refers to God using an unusual neologism.

Watercolour sketches of native birds including the Lord Howe Woodhen ( Gallirallus sylvestris ), White Gallinule ( Porphyrio albus ), and Lord Howe Pigeon ( Columba vitiensis godmanae ), were made by artists including George Raper and John Hunter.