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...

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...

Saint Columba, a 6th-century Celtic Church missionary descended from the Gaelic nobility of Ireland in modern County Donegal, who founded Iona Abbey and...

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...

Iona) (died 12 August 652) was the fifth abbot of the Iona Abbey in Scotland (623–652). Ségéne was of the Cenél Conaill, the same kindred as Columba,...

 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...