Adomnán of Iona, as well as other early Irish writers, were aware of, although it is not clear if he was deliberately named after Jonah or not. Columba is also...

a monastic community by St. Columba, when Iona was part of the Kingdom of Dál Riata. Saint Aidan served as a monk at Iona, before helping to reestablish...

modern Scottish Gaelic name means "Iona of (Saint) Columba" (formerly anglicised as "Icolmkill"). In 2019, Iona's estimated population was 120. In March...

was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae)...

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...

 800, long after St. Columba's death in 597. The proposed dating in the 9th century coincides with Viking raids on Lindisfarne and Iona, which began c. 793-794...

having founded the church at Dunkeld which later received relics of St Columba from Iona. It had been proposed that Causantín and his brother Óengus were sons...

669) was the seventh abbot of Iona (657–669), succeeding Suibne moccu Fir Thrí. Cumméne Find was a kinsman of Columba from the royal dynasty of the Cenél...

Adomnán of Iona claimed that Columba served as a deacon under Finnian, whom Adomnán claimed to be a bishop. Adomnán, in his biography of Columba, recorded...

a relative of Columba and granted the missionaries ownership of Iona, where they established a Bible school. Bede writes that Columba converted the Picts...