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Our venerable and God-bearing Father '''Columba of Iona''', Enlightener of Scotland ([[December 7]], 521 - [[June 9]], 597) (also known as '''Columcille''', meaning "Dove of the Church") was an Irish missionary who helped re-introduce Christianity to Scotland and the north of England.
The primary source on the life of St. Columba is the ''Life of St. Columba'', a [[hagiography]] by St. [[Adomnan of Iona]]. A newly founded monastic community in the United States, [[St. Columba of Iona Orthodox Monastery (Southbridge, Massachusetts)]], seeks to bring the same Orthodox missionary zeal to the shores of the New World
==Life==
He was born to Fedhlimidh and Eithne of the Ui Neill clan in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, Donegal. On his father's side he was great-great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Irish king of the fourth century. He became a [[monasticism|monk]] and soon rose in the church hierarchy to the rank of [[priest]]. Tradition asserts that, sometime around 560, he became involved in a copyright wrangle with St. [[Finnian of Moville]] over a [[psalter]]. The dispute eventually led to the pitched Battle of Cul Dremhe in 561, during which many men were killed. (Columba's copy of the psalter has been traditionally associated with the [[Cathach of St. Columba]].) As [[penance ]] for these deaths, Columba was ordered to make the same number of new converts [[convert]]s as had been killed. He was also ordered to leave Ireland and move such that he could not see his native country.
[[Image:Columba_Bay.jpg|left|thumb|300px|St. Columba's Bay, where the saint first landed on [[Iona]]]]
*[http://www.stcolumbachurch.org/Saint_Columba_Paper.cfm Saint Columba: Fact and Fiction] by Fr. Lester Michael Bundy, Professor of Religious Studies, Regis University; Pastor, [http://www.stcolumbachurch.org/ St. Columba Orthodox Church]
*[http://www.orthodox.clara.net/saint-cd.htm St. Columba (Columcille), Abbot and Missionary, (597), fd: 9 June]
*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/c/rbp01.htm Icon and Story of St. Columcille of Iona]
*[http://www.stcolumbamonastery.org St. Columba of Iona Orthodox Monastery Southbridge, Massachusetts]
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[[Category:SaintsPriests]][[Category:6th-century saints]] [[ro:Columba din Iona]]
