St. Adomnan (also Adamnan, Eunan) was born in Ireland in about 625, approximately on the site of the present-day small town of Raphoe in County Donegal in Ulster. His father’s name was Ronan and his ...

FOR generations, experts on the famous Scottish medieval abbey of Iona have speculated about whether a particular windswept outcrop of rock in the ancient monastic com­plex was the site of St ...

I'M all for the work of the Iona Community ("Iona plea for £500,000 so pilgrims can still progress", The Herald, ... then called Achinbady, which Adomnan Latinised to Hinba. In his second book, ...

An even more incredible story of miracle-working is ascribed to Adomnan, the ninth Abbot of Iona, involving another, more famous Pictish King named Bridei - the same King Bridei who defeated the ...

There’s a wonderful account in Adomnan’s Life of Columba in which St. Cormac is out in the waters off Iona, surrounded by strange and terrible creatures. On Iona, Columba perceives his struggle and ...

The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Through 1400 years of history its fortunes have fluctuated, from its heights as one of the ...

The saint is best known for his Vita Columbae (Life of Columba). He wrote the biography of his ancestor on Iona where he was Abbot towards the end of the 600s. But it less well known that in De ...

The Latin word “Insula,” where it appears in Adomnan’s book as “Insula Iona” has always been translated as “island”. The trouble is, that this only works if the narrator was a native ...

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 ...