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Columba

c. 521 – 597 · b. Gartan, Donegal
monkpresbyter

Irish monk who founded the monastery of Iona (563), launching point for the Christianization of Pictish and Northumbrian Britain. Known through Adomnán's Vita Columbae.

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Sources for biography

  • Adomnán, Vita Columbae primary
  • Bede, Hist. Eccl. 3.4 primary

tradition connections(1)

  • cited Patrick of Ireland
    Columba stands in the Irish monastic tradition that traces back to Patrick; direct lineage is hagiographic.
    Adomnán, Vita Columbae, prologue

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