Venerable Adomnan, Abbot of Iona in Scotland Commemorated: September 23 / October 6. Dmitry Lapa. St. Adomnan ...

Just before we got to the abbey, we saw a small chapel and a graveyard. St. Oran’s Chapel, dating from the early 12th century, is the oldest original building still standing on Iona.

Columba’s role may have been forgotten completely following his death in 597 if not for the ninth Abbot of Iona and his book, the Vita Colum Cille (Life of Columba). Advertisement.

They will row and sail their craft so as to reach Iona at Pentecost, which this year falls on June 2, for it was on the eve of Pentecost in 563 that St. Columba, sailing from Derry with 12 ...

An even more incredible story of miracle-working is ascribed to Adomnan, the ninth Abbot of Iona, involving another, more famous Pictish King named Bridei - the same King Bridei who defeated the ...

On the night before Christmas 986, Danes out of Limerick descended on Iona. The Abbot and 15 monks began running towards the shore, hoping for shelter among the black rocks.

After his death Iona became a place of pilgrimage for kings and commoners. 60,000 of the latter still visit the rebuilt abbey every year. ... "the mound of the abbot".

Much inspiration has been drawn from the quote from Vita Columbae, the Life of St Columba, written around 100 years after the saint’s death by Adomnán, an abbot of Iona.

Spearheaded by Raphoe Community in Action and funded by Donegal County Council’s Culture and Creativity Team under the ...

Aidan died in 651. The next two bishops of Northumbria were also Irish monks appointed and sent by the abbot of Iona. For 30 years, therefore, the monastery of Lindisfarne was a daughter house of ...