Columba
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from St. Columba)
Related e |
Featured: |
Saint Columba (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD)—also known as Colum Cille (Old Irish, meaning "dove of the church"), Colm Cille (Irish), Calum Cille (Scottish Gaelic) and Kolban or Kolbjørn (Old Norse, meaning "black bear") —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
[edit]
See also
- Columba College
- St Columba's Church, London
- St. Columba's School
- Scoil Colmcille
- History of Ireland#Early Christian Ireland 400–800
- List of people on stamps of Ireland
- Old High St Stephen's, Inverness
- Sainte-Colombe
- Scotland in the Early Middle Ages
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Columba" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.