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.

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

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.

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

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.

Saint Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk ( 1439 – 1515 ), wrote a number of influential works against heresy, and about monastic and liturgical discipline, and Christian philanthropy.

He was made Abbot of Saint Martin's at Tours in 796, where he remained until his death.

251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

Painting of Saint Anthony, a part of The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot by Piero di Cosimo, ca.

In 1113, Saint Stephen Harding had just succeeded him as third Abbot of Cîteaux when Bernard and thirty other young noblemen of Burgundy sought admission into the Cistercian order.

*** Saint Chrodogang, Archbishop of Metz, Abbot of the Lorsch Abbey

Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later Abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.

Under the great inspiration of Saint Anthony the Great ( 251-356 ), ascetic monks led by Saint Pachomius ( 286-346 ) formed the first Christian monastic communities under what became known as an Abbot, from the Aramaic abba ( father ).

* Anselm, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury

* Anthelm, Saint, Abbot of the Grand Chartreuse

* Bernard, Saint, Abbot of Clairvaux, preacher and reformer

* May 15 – The Cathedral of Saint Agatha in Catania is consecrated by the Breton Abbot Ansger of Saint Euphemia.

The Abbey Church was enlarged in the 10th century by the Abbot of Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan, the central figure in the 10th-century revival of English monastic life.

His biography by his constant advisor Abbot Suger of Saint Denis renders him a fully rounded character to the historian, unlike most of his predecessors.

* Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.

* Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.

After Carloman's death, Gerberga expected her elder son to become King, and for herself to rule as his regent ; however, Carloman's former supporters – his cousin Adalhard, Abbot Fulrad of Saint Denis and Count Warin – turned against her, and invited Charlemagne to annex Carloman's territory, which he duly did.

The monastic community was founded by Saint David, Abbot of Menevia, who died in 589.

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.