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.

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.

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.

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

Of particular note are the lives of St. Patrick, St. Columba and St. Brigit — Ireland's three patron saints.

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.

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 ).

Saint Colm Cille, or Columba, is one of Ireland's three patron saints ( along with Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid ).

Around 550 AD Columba ( also known as Colmcille ), one of the three patron saints of Ireland, founded a monastic settlement in the area.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

So, for instance, Ware, in his " Antiquitates Hiberniae ", writing of Derry, says: " St. Columba built ( this monastery ) for Canons Regular in the year 545.

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.

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.

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

Some elements may have been introduced to Ireland by the Briton St. Patrick, later others spread from Ireland to Britain with the Irish mission system of Saint Columba.

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.

Adomnán claims that Áedán was ordained as king by Columba, the first example of an ordination known in Britain and Ireland.

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.

However, Adomnán the chronicler of the life of Columba, notes that Brendan the Navigator set sail from Ireland to visit Columba and unexpectedly found him en route at Hinba.

St. Eunan's Cathedral or the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba as it is also known, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the parish of Conwal and Leck in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland.

Columba and his followers established monasteries at Bangor, on the northeastern coast of Ireland, at Iona, an island north-west of Scotland, and at Lindisfarne, which was founded by Aidan, an Irish monk from Iona, at the request of King Oswald of Northumbria.

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.

He writes approvingly of Aidan and Columba, who came from Ireland as missionaries to the Picts and Northumbrians, but disapproved of the failure of the Welsh to evangelize the invading Anglo-Saxons.

The Roman Catholic Church of The Three Patrons ( named after the three Patron Saints of Ireland: St Patrick, St Bridget and St Columba ) on Rathgar Road is known as " The Servants ' Church " because in the late 19th and early 20th century it was the place of worship for the large number of servants who worked and lived in the large houses in the area.

Caustantín of the Picts brought Scotland's share of the relics of Columba from Iona to Dunkeld at the same time others were taken to Kells in Ireland, to protect them from Viking raids.

Relics of Saint Columba, including his bones, were said to have been kept at Dunkeld until the Reformation, at which time they were removed to Ireland.

Linguistic organisations promote linguistic ties, notably the Gorsedd in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, and the Irish government-sponsored Columba Initiative between Ireland and Scotland.