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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.
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Columba copied the manuscript at the scriptorium under Saint Finnian, intending to keep the copy.
St. Columba is the Patron Saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, OH.
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In book three, Adomnán describes different apparitions of the Saint, both that Columba receives and those that are seen by others regarding him.
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.
* CELT: On the Life of Saint Columba ( Betha Choluim Chille ) ( tr.
The cult of Saint Columba and its relics were associated with victory in battle.
The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland contain an account of the battle, and this attributes the defeat of the Norsemen to the intercession of Saint Columba following fasting and prayer.
Its modern Gaelic name means " Iona of ( Saint ) Columba " ( formerly anglicised " Icolmkill ").
* Knights of Saint Columba
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 Columba may refer to:
* Columba the Virgin, also known as Saint Columba of Cornwall
* Knights of Saint Columba, a Scottish Order of Catholic Laymen
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.
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.
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