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.

Columba is historically revered as a warrior saint, and was often invoked for victory in battle.

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.

Yet another tale tells of the other Irish saints envying him to such a degree that every one of them ( apart from St Columba ) prayed for his early death ; and finally, he is supposed to have told his followers that upon his death, they were to leave his bones upon the hillside, and to preserve his spirit rather than his relics.

It has an apparent visual magnitude of 2. 6, making it the brightest member of Columba.

From the perspective of an observer on a hypothetical planet around Vega, the Sun would appear as a faint 4. 3 magnitude star in the Columba constellation.

The only other named star in Columba is Beta Columbae, which has the name Wazn.

Alpha Columbae ( α Columbae, α Col ) is the Bayer designation for a third magnitude star in the southern constellation of Columba.

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

It incorporates elements from a now lost earlier life of Columba, De virtutibus sancti Columbae, by Cumméne Find.

Adomnán's most important work is the Vita Columbae, a hagiography of Columba, and the most important surviving work written in early medieval Scotland.

The early Christian period began in the 6th Century, with 563AD being a pivotal point as it is believed that Christianity was brought to this part of northern Britain by St. Columba, when he arrived from Ireland to set up a monastery on the Island of Iona just off the south-west point of Mull.

This concert was the prelude to the Gaelic Mod, the first being held at Oban the following year, when St. Columba Choir were successful in the Choir competition.

It is dedicated to Saint Columba, the Irish monk who established a Christian settlement in the area before being exiled from Ireland and introducing Christianity to Scotland and northern England.

An ancient castle once stood near where the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St. Columba, Donegal's only Roman Catholic cathedral, stands today.

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.

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.

He considered that the £ 100, 000 paid to build St Eunan's College and the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba in Letterkenny was too great a burden for its 2, 000 inhabitants, and found that the CDB head Bishop O ' Donnell had indirectly applied grants towards the buildings.

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

The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.

Its name implies associations dating back to the time of Columba and, although undocumented before the 12th century, it may have served the monks of the Columban family as an ' Iona of the east ' from early times.

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

* St. Columba

This may possibly explain the traditional spot in St. Peter's, where St. Gregory and St. Columba are supposed to have met ( Moran, Irish SS.

It may be that the example and success of St. Columba in Caledonia stimulated him to similar exertions.

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

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.

Columba became a pupil at the monastic school at Clonard Abbey, situated on the River Boyne in modern County Meath.

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

Columba copied the manuscript at the scriptorium under Saint Finnian, intending to keep the copy.

Columba suggested that he would work as a missionary in Scotland to help convert as many people as had been killed in the battle.

Columba's copy of the psalter has been traditionally associated with the Cathach of St. Columba.

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