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This page has been archived and is no longer updated. A marker at Stroove Beach on the Inishowen Peninsula commemorates the place where Columba set sail for Scotland. He was a missionary and a scholar, and the . In any case, the family began attending St. Columba's by the end of the year, and were baptized in early 1964. I'm going to be fou. Columba's relics were finally removed in 849 AD and divided between Alba and Ireland. Born into Irish aristocracy, Columba is said to have been a descendant of legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages. Though Dick wouldn't attend services for long, he more or less self-identified as . Without his wolf's strength, Columba would not have evangelized Scotland, unafraid of jealous opposition from Druids and Pictish chieftains. Columba currently has two poems attributed to him: "Adiutor Laborantium" and "Altus Prosator". [11] In the Irish language his name means 'dove', which is the same name as the Prophet Jonah (Jonah in Hebrew is also 'dove'), which Adomnn of Iona as well as other early Irish writers were aware of, although it is not clear if he was deliberately named after Jonah or not. Why not? Columba studied under Saints Finnian of Moville and Finnian of Clonard and was ordained priest about 551. St. Columba, also called Colum, or Columcille, (born c. 521, Tyrconnell [now County Donegal, Ireland]died June 8/9, 597, Iona [Inner Hebrides, Scotland]; feast day June 9), abbot and missionary traditionally credited with the main role in the conversion of Scotland to Christianity. After his death Iona became a place of pilgrimage for kings and commoners. Colmcille, meaning "the dove of the Church" in Gaelic, or Columba was born at Gartan in County Donegal in 520 or 521. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dl Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as a Catholic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. [14] However, there is a sense in which he was not leaving his native people, as the Ulster Gaels had been colonising the west coast of Scotland for the previous couple of centuries. Upon completion of his studies with Gemman, Columba entered Clonard Monastery, situated on the River Boyne in modern County Meath, whose abbot was Finniana monk known for his great sanctity and erudition.