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Today we join with the people of Scotland in celebrating the 1400th anniversary of the death of the apostle to Scotland, St. Iona.
Columba [Ed. Note: Columcille] was born in Ireland in 521, and early in life showed scholarly and clerical ability. He entered the monastic life, and almost immediately set forth on missionary travels. Even before ordination to the presbyterate in 551, he had founded monasteries at Derry and Durrow.
Twelve years after his ordination, Columba and a dozen companions set out for northern Britain, where Picts were still generally ignorant of Christianity. Columba was kindly received, allowed to preach, convert, and baptize. He was also given possession of the island of Iona, where, according to legend, his tiny boat had washed ashore. Here he founded the celebrated monastery which became the center for the conversion of the Picts. From Iona, his disciples went out to found other monasteries which, in turn, became centers of missionary activity.
Columba made long journeys through the Highlands, as far as Aberdeen. He often returned to Ireland to attend synods and thus established Iona as a link between the Irish and Pictish Christians. For thirty years he evangelized, studied, wrote, and governed his monastery at Iona. He died peacefully while working at a copy of the Psalter on June 9, 597.
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