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 ...

Accounts written about 100 years after Columba's death describe him sitting writing in a wooden hut on Iona Ask anyone around the globe who is the patron saint of Ireland and you can expect to be ...

St Columba inhabited the lonely rock of Iona, amidst wild Hebridean seas. St Aidan made his home on Lindisfarne, encircled by the creeping Northumbrian tides. Then there was Aidan’s follower St ...

Located a mile off Mull in the Inner Hebrides, the tiny island of Iona has been in history books since St Columba established a monastery there in the sixth century. Now Iona is on course for a ...

Poet Kenneth Steven has a special relationship with the small Hebridean island of Iona, set in the Atlantic ... and worship in the 6th century, when St Columba brought Christianity from Ireland ...

Visit Aosdàna for handmade Celtic silver and stone jewelry, or the adorable Iona Craft Shop, near the ferry port, for vibrant textiles made from local fleece. St. Columba Larder has a variety of ...

Let's start with Columba, a fearless saint. In 563 AD, he sailed to Iona and set up a monastery, and from here many people in Scotland converted to Christianity. But if we look at the rest of ...