As the Hebrides passed through pagan, Norse and Scottish rule, one voice endured above the turmoil: St. Columba, whose ...

IT’S a “sacred” island and one of the great pilgrimage destinations of modern Christianity. And yesterday leading politicians from Scotland and Ireland met to celebrate the 1,450th anniversary of the ...

The pilgrimage reliquary contains the relics of St. Columba, St. Andrew, and St. Margaret of Scotland, the country’s patron saints. Pilgrims traveled on foot and by ferry from the Scottish west coast, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered conclusive evidence that a wooden hut traditionally associated with St Columba at his ancient monastery on the island of Iona dates to his lifetime in the late sixth ...

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Image caption, Accounts written about 100 years after Columba's death describe him sitting writing in a wooden hut on Iona Archaeologists say they have identified the remains of the cell of St Columba ...

A dozen young men plan to embark at Derry in Northern Ireland in May, 1963. Partly Scots and partly Irish, they will represent several denominations. They will row and sail their craft so as to reach ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. St Columba could raise the dead, turn water into wine and supposedly once battled the Loch Ness monster. But ...

Archaeologists have uncovered conclusive evidence that a wooden hut traditionally associated with St Columba at his ancient monastery on the island of Iona dates to his lifetime in the late sixth ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the remains of the cell of St Columba on the Scottish island of Iona. They have used radiocarbon dating to place samples of burned wood in the middle of Columba ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...