The Life of St. Columba saints the spirituality of St

the spirituality of St

Columba removed himself and a few loyal monks to the island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides

and a thirty page introductory essay on the life and times of Columba

this classic Irish hagiography of one of Erin's greatest saints is a must have for any student of Irish Catholicism's golden age

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The Life of St. Columba saints the spirituality of StThe great St. Columba of Iona (521 597) was one of Ireland's most famous missionaries. Exiled from Ireland as a young monk for his part in the bloody Battle of Cl Dreimhne, St. Columba removed himself and a few loyal monks to the island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. From his Abbey at Iona he spent decades spreading the faith among the pagan Gaels and Picts of Scotland, a labor that earned him the title "Apostle of Scotland." The introduction