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Columba

6th‑century Gaelic Irish missionary monk, Christian saint, pioneer of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and “Apostle of the Picts”

8 dated entries naming Columba, drawn from 7 separate years between 521 CE and 806 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century

  • 521December 7 – Columba, Gaelic Irish missionary monk (d. 597)source
  • 560Columba quarrels with Finnian of Moville over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year.source
  • 563Columba, Irish missionary monk, travels to Scotland with twelve companions. He lands on the Kintyre Peninsula, near Southend, and begins his evangelising mission to the Picts. On the island of Iona, he founds a monastery (Iona Abbey) on the west coast in the Inner Hebrides.source
  • 564August 22 – Columba reports seeing the Loch Ness Monster at the River Ness (according to the "Life of St. Columba").source
  • 565Columba, an Irish missionary, spots the Loch Ness Monster on the River Ness (in present day Scotland) and saves the life of a Pict (approximate date).source
  • 597June 9 – Columba, Gaelic Irish missionary (b. 521)source
  • 597June 9 – Columba, Irish missionary, dies in Iona (Inner Hebrides) and is buried by his monks in the abbey he has created. He works successfully towards the conversion of northern Britain.source

9th century

  • 806Vikings massacre Columba's monks, and all the inhabitants on the island of Iona (Scotland). Other monks flee to safety in the monastery of Kells (Ireland). They take with them the Book of Kells.source

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