Columba is credited as being a leading figure in the revitalization of monasticism, and " His achievements illustrated the importance of the Celtic church in bringing a revival of Christianity to Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

" It is known that Clan MacCallum and Clan Malcolm are descended from the original followers of Columba, It is also said that Clan Robertson are heirs of Columba.

The cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles is placed under the patronage of St. Columba as are numerous Catholic schools and parishes throughout the nation.

Columba is the patron saint of the city of Derry, Ireland where he founded a monastic settlement in c. AD 540.

The name of the city in Irish is Doire Colmcille and is derived from the native oak trees in the area and the city's association with Columba.

The Church of Ireland Cathedral in Derry is dedicated to St Columba.

Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.

St. Columba is the Patron Saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, OH.

In one of the stories, Columba is in excommunication and goes to a meeting held against him in Teilte.

Saint Brendan, despite of all the negative reactions among the seniors toward Columba, kisses him reverently and assures that Columba is the man of God and that he sees Holy Angels accompanying Columba on his journey through the plain.

In the last Chapter, Columba foresees his death to his attendant: This day in the Holy Scriptures is called the Sabbath, which means rest.

Another early source is a poem in praise of Columba, most probably commissioned by Columba's kinsman, the King of the Uí Néill clan.

The Cathbuaid, Columba's crozier or staff, has been lost but the 8th-century Breccbennach or Monymusk Reliquary shown here, which held relics of Columba, is known to have been carried into battle from the reign of King William I of Scotland | William I onwards.

St. Columba of Iona is thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following an outbreak of plague and journeyed north to open the House at Derry.

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.

This is contemporary with Bridei mac Maelchon and Columba, but the process of establishing Christianity throughout Pictland will have extended over a much longer period.

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.

Nothing is known about his teachings, and there is no unchallenged authority for information about his life, although it is accepted that Christianity originally reached Ireland from Scotland, from which Saint Columba hailed, making Ninian the grandfather of Christianity in Scotland and more important figure in Scottish ecclesiastical history-and arguably a far better candidate for Patron Saint than Saint Andrew.

Saint ( Queen ) Margaret, Saint Columba and Saint Ninian have also historically enjoyed great popularity.

His attendant witnesses heavenly light in the direction of Columba, and Holy angels joins the saint in his passage to the Lord: And having given them his holy benediction in this way, he immediately breathed his last.

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

* Columba ( 521 – 597 ), Irish Christian saint who evangelized Scotland

Bishop Colmán argued the Ionan calculation of Easter on the following grounds that it was the practice of Columba, founder of their monastic network and a saint of unquestionable holiness, who himself had followed the tradition of St. John the apostle and evangelist.

It was claimed that the night before the battle, Oswald had a vision of Saint Columba, in which the saint foretold that Oswald would be victorious.

One of the last windows of this plan depicts Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, holding his cross with, on either side of him, Saint Columba and King David ( erroneously labelled Saint David ).

Santa Comba refers to a saint named Comba, a fusion of two female saints: Columba of Sens and Columba of Spain, and may refer to:

" To what order this monastery, founded by Columba, belonged, we may judge from other monasteries built by the saint in Ireland and Scotland.

" Again, tradition places the first landing of the saint on leaving Ireland at Oronsay, and Fordun ( Bower ) notices the island as " Hornsey, ubi est monasterium nigrorum Canonicorum, quod fundavit S. Columba " ( where is the monastery of Black Canons which St. Columba founded ).

It traditionally alternates between Ballabeg and Colby, but in recent years has been held only in Ballabeg, and is in commemoration of the parish's patron saint, Columba.

Traditionally it is believed that the village was the location of a cordial meeting in the latter half of the sixth century between Columba and St Kentigern, known locally as St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.

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.

Columba was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Cenel Conaill in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, in modern County Donegal in the north of Ireland.

Twelve students who studied under St. Finnian became known as the Twelve Apostles of Ireland ; Columba was one of them.

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

Legend has it that the Brecbennoch, was carried to the Battle of Bannockburn ( 24 June 1314 ) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army and the intercession of Columba helped them to victory.

Scotland was largely converted to Christianity by Irish-Scots missions associated with figures such as St Columba, from the fifth to the seventh centuries.

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.

He pointed out that in the earliest recorded sighting of a creature, the Life of St. Columba, the creature's emergence was accompanied " cum ingenti fremitu " ( with very loud roaring ).

Earlier descriptions of the species placed it within the genus Columba, but it was transferred to a monotypic genus due to the greater length of the tail and wings.

Oswald, he says, had a vision of Columba the night before the battle, in which he was told: Be strong and act manfully.

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 ).

It is said that Áedán was consecrated as king by Columba.

This, it was said, was divine retribution for Domnall Brecc turning his back on the alliance with the kinsmen of Columba.

The scholar David Dumville suggests that Gildas was the teacher of Finnian of Moville, who in turn was the teacher of St. Columba of Iona.

Traditionally, the book was thought to have been created in the time of Columba, possibly even as the work of his own hands.

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.

From 1 July 1943 until her death on 5 July 1983, Powell was married to Frances " Frankie " May Reidy, the daughter of medical practitioner Jerome Reidy ; they had two sons: Kevin Michael Powell ( b. 1945 ) and Columba Jerome Reidy Powell ( b. 1951 ).

The constellation Columba ( the dove ) was chosen to symbolize peace on Earth and the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Clark also pointed out that the dove in the Columba constellation was mythologically connected to the explorers ' The Argonauts ' who released the dove.

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.