Above: Picture of Pennine Alps The great name of St. Columcille is held dear by the descendants of the Scots both in Erin and in Alba. The people of the Hebrides invoke his aid to this day in their annual Shealing Hymn, and the stone flag on which he was born at Gartan is worn bare by the hands and feet of pious pil-f'ims. Yet he has his full habitation throughout even a wider area, and even in his own time ... Read More

Above: Drawing of St. Columcille and the white horse The story of his death as told by Adamnan is one of the most affecting passages in Christian biography. On the last day of his life he went to a little hill near the monastery that overlooked the whole island, and gazing around him for the last time, he blessed the island and its inhabitants. Then he told Dermot, one of his monks who was with him, of his approaching death. " ... Read More