Archaeologists have uncovered conclusive evidence that a wooden hut traditionally associated with St Columba at his ancient monastery on the island of Iona dates to his lifetime in the late sixth ...

IT’S a “sacred” island and one of the great pilgrimage destinations of modern Christianity. And yesterday leading politicians from Scotland and Ireland met to celebrate the 1,450th anniversary of the ...

The pilgrimage reliquary contains the relics of St. Columba, St. Andrew, and St. Margaret of Scotland, the country’s patron saints. Pilgrims traveled on foot and by ferry from the Scottish west coast, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. St Columba could raise the dead, turn water into wine and supposedly once battled the Loch Ness monster. But ...

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Scotland's History Early Scotland Columba founds a monastery on Iona The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this ...

They have used radiocarbon dating to place samples of burned wood in the middle of Columba's time there almost 1,500 years ago. The charred remains of a hut were excavated in 1957, but it has taken ...

Archaeologists have uncovered conclusive evidence that a wooden hut traditionally associated with St Columba at his ancient monastery on the island of Iona dates to his lifetime in the late sixth ...

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