Iona Abbey Later the man of God moved to Scotland, to the great monastery of Iona, where he led the monastic life under Abbot Segene. In the year 679, aged about fifty-five, Adomnan himself became the ...

Columba himself would have remained an enigmatic and little-known figure were it not for Adomnán, the ninth Abbot of Iona, and his book, the Vita Colum Cille (Life of Columba), which ensured that ...

Iona's fame began in 563 AD when Columba ... He urged his successor as abbot to take up his work, then went to the church, dying in prayer before the altar with a final gesture of blessing ...