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The Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae) is a hagiography recounting the life of Columba, the founder of Iona Abbey, written a century after Columba's death by Adomnán, one of his successors as Abbot of Iona.
Columba (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə ˌ ˈ k ɒ l ʌ m b ə /) or Colmcille [a] (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.
Burntisland Parish Church (also known as St Columba's, Burntisland) is a church building in the Fife burgh of Burntisland, constructed for the Church of Scotland in 1592. It is historically important as one of the first churches built in Scotland after the Reformation, with a highly distinctive and apparently original square plan.
The Book of Kells (Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illustrated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, [1] containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Eochaid mac Colla (c. 560 – 640), better known as Saint Dallán or Dallán Forgaill (Old Irish: Dallán Forchella; Latin: Dallanus Forcellius; Primitive Irish: Dallagnas Worgēllas), was an early Christian Irish poet and saint known as the writer of the "Amra Coluim Chille" ("Elegy of Saint Columba") and, traditionally, "Rop Tú Mo Baile" [1] ("Be Thou My Vision").
St. Kolumba, remaining walls in the Kolumbahof Statue of Mary from 1460/70. The church was destroyed by bombing in 1943.Only some exterior walls, the basement of the tower, the entrance hall, and a Gothic statue of Mary survived.
Iona Abbey Panoramic view. Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland.. It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe.
Adomnán was born about 624, a relative on his father's side of Columba. [2] He was a member of the Northern Uí Néill lineage Cenél Conaill. [3] He was the son of Rónán mac Tinne by Ronat, a woman from another Northern Uí Néill lineage known as the Cenél nÉnda.