Columba
Gaelic Irish missionary monk
Columba (7 December 521 – 9 June 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.
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Quotes
editLife of St. Columba
edit- Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. How an Aquatic Monster was driven off by virtue of the blessed man's prayer.