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 ...

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 ...

According to Dr. Ken Dark, an archaeologist with Reading University, the ancient pilgrim text “De Locus Sanctis, written in 670 AD by Irish monk Abbot Adomnan of Iona, set out key evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Book of Iona: An anthology Robert Crawford, editor Polygon £14.99 (978-1-84697-351-2) Church Times Bookshop £13.50 . ... Throughout the book are Crawford’s translations of Adomnan’s Life of ...

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, ...

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Of all the Dark Age Scottish saints, Columba is the most spectacular star. In 563 AD Columba left Ireland and settled with the Gaels of Dál Riata, where he was granted the Island of Iona to found ...