Colomba d\' Iona
See also: Iona
Holy Colomba (December 7th 521 - June 9th 597), or Columb Cille in Irish Gaelic (i.e. “ Colombe of the church ”), is a missionary Irish which helped to reintroduce the Christianisme in Scotland and in the north of the England. It establishes new a monastic order whose principal community was installed on the island of Iona in 563. The legend wants that it arrived on the small island of the Hébrides with twelve companions, christic metaphor aiming at reinforcing its crowned character. It was buried in Downpatrick with Saint Patrick and holy Brigitte of Ireland which are other patron saint of Ireland.
Biography
Saint Colomba was born in 521 under the name of Criamtham , prince of the royal house of the O' Neill of Tir Conail in current the Comté of Donegal in Ireland .il is also related by his Erca grandmother with that of the Dalriada. Known under the ecclesiastical name of Colum Cille ( servant of the dove ) It enters to the abbey of Clonard under the direction of Saint Finian of Magh Bile (Movilla) then founds several schools and monasteries in Ireland: with Derry in (545), Durrow in (553) and Kells in (554).Colomba was can be thorough with the emigration by its zeal missionary but also undoubtedly exiled not like wants it the legend, to have carried out and carried without the agreement of Saint Finian, the copy of an invaluable Roman manuscript, but also for political reasons related to its participation in the competitions which opposed the family members royal and who had ended in 561 to the bloody battle of Cúl Dreimne between the O `Neill of North and the laughed Ard Érenn Diarmait mac Cerbaill (544 - 565).
In this context its influence was not only spiritual but also strongly political. Always condemned according to the legend to convert as much again Christian than he had died about it by his fault he settled with twelve companions in 563 under the protection of the king Conall mac Comgaill of Dalriada on the small island of Iona old place crowned of the druids located off the island of Mull and he made of it a turntable of his missions and intervention as well with the kingdom of Dalriada as at the Pictes.
While being inserted towards north by the Great Glen it overcame according to the legend the monster which haunted (already!) The banks of the Log Born and succeeded in treating with the druids (magus) whom it met at the court of the king Brude and whose Broichan main thing was the proper feeder father of the monarch.
Conversion, the ninth (the eighth according to the Picte Chronicle) year of its reign, the pictes and king Brude however resulting from a brittonic family theoretically already Christian and whose father had been the subject of the anathemas of Gildas overlooked by Saint Adomnan biographer of the saint, but put at the credit of Colomba by the Picte Chronicle and under heard by Bède Worthy the:
Colomba arrived to Brittany the ninth year of the reign of Bruide wire of Maelchon, very powerful king of the nation of the pictes. And by its preaching as much as for its example, it converts this nation with the faith of Christ .
After the death of Colomba (8 June 9th 597) the direction of the monastic community of Iona was ensured during at least a century and half an exception near by princes abbots resulting directly from his family of which its biographer and ninth successor like abbot of Iona, Saint Adomnan.
It is honoured the June 9th.
It should not be confused with its contemporary, holy Colomban. One finds also the C-W communication more current of holy Columba .
Bonds
Life of Holy Colomba (English translation) => http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T201011/index.html
Life of Holy Colomba by Adomnan (English translation) => http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T201040/index.html
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