Inspired by Saint Columcille and his journey to the island of Iona, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
The Bolle's Pigeon (Columba bollii) is a species of Columba genus of the family Columbidae, of doves and pigeons, which is endemic to the Canary Islands, Spain.
In the Life of St. Columba it is recorded that he visited King Bridei in Pictland in around the year 565 AD and taking a white stone pebble from the River Ness he blessed it and any water it came into contact with would cure sick people.
Others think that Colen is a version of St Columba to whom the village church was dedicated in 1170.
For example, in the sixth century St. Columba founded many monasteries in Europe with an emphasis on manuscript production.
She wrote numerous books, including brief biographies of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Saint John Bosco, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint Columba, Saint Monica, Saint Athanasius, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Benedict, Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Saint Vincent de Paul, and, most famously, Pope Saint Pius X.
The species was a large pigeon, comparable in size to large species of Columba or Ducula, and larger than the other three species of pigeon it coexisted with on the island.
The Mauritian Wood Pigeon (Columba thiriouxi) is an extinct species of the pigeon genus Columba which was endemic to Mauritius.
The spirals and scrolls in the enlarged opening letters—found in the earliest manuscripts such as the 7th century Cathach of St. Columba manuscript—borrows in style directly from Celtic enamels and La Tene metalworking motifs.
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Around 563 Saint Columba founded a base on the Scottish island of Iona, from which to convert Pictish pagans in Scotland; this monastic settlement became long remained a key centre of Christian culture in northern Britain.
Although it is not known where or when this manuscript was made, the similarities to the manuscripts noted above make it likely that it was made in one of the monasteries in the network of monasteries founded by St. Columba.
Bede states that Columba, a Gael, used an interpreter during his mission to the Picts.
The Roman Catholic Church of The Three Patrons (named after the three Patron Saints of Ireland: St Patrick, St Bridget and St Columba) on Rathgar Road is known as "The Servants' Church" because in the late 19th and early 20th century it was the place of worship for the large number of servants who worked and lived in the large houses in the area.
The river takes its name Súileach from a man-eating water monster that was chopped in half by Saint Columba, who was born in Gartan.
The chapel replaced an earlier chapel dedicated to St. Columba, which had been incorporated into nearby Skipness Castle.
Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of the island along with Saints Brigid and Columba.
Robson's appointment was announced on 8 May 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI and he received episcopal consecration on 9 June 2012, the Feast of St Columba, from Keith Patrick Cardinal O'Brien with Archbishops Antonio Mennini and Mario Conti serving as co-consecrators.
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The second lion gets a columba, and together, the two lions grab the ends of the bone.
Dalton was born in 1903 and grew up around Columba's Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.
Banneker Recreation Center is an historic structure located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building was built in 1934 and was named for Benjamin Banneker, a free African American who assisted in the survey of boundaries of the original District of Columba in 1791.
Columba later gained further fame as the first Donegal man to win a Senior All-Ireland football winners medal, when he lined out for Cavan in the 1947 final played at the Polo Grounds in New York City.
Caldwell 73 (NGC 1851), a globular cluster in the constellation Columba
It has been proposed that the St Andrews Sarcophagus was made for Causantín, but this is a minority view, as is the suggestion that the relics of Columba, perhaps including the Monymusk Reliquary, may have been translated from Iona to Dunkeld during Causantín's reign.
The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.
Columba College is the "sister school" of local boys school John McGlashan College.
Her relics were kept and venerated in Old Castile at two churches, the priory of St. Columba and the royal Abbey of Our Lady at Nájera.
When Saint Finnian was in extremis, suffering from the plague, Columba administered Holy Viaticum.
He is best known for eulogies attributed to him on the subject of contemporaneous Irish saints, namely the Amra Choluim Chille and Fo réir Coluim cén ad-fías on Saint Columba, Amra Senain on Saint Senan, and Amra Connaill on Saint Connall.
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union, until 1707 includes a history of the Kingship by Benjamin Hudson.
But owing to rivalries between the northern and the southern clans, especially on the borderland, Cormac found it impossible to retain the office of prior, and so he fled from the monastery, leaving in charge a first cousin of Columba, Laisrén by name, who was acceptable to both sides.
Failbe was of the same kindred as Columba, the Cenél Conaill, distantly related to him through their common ancestor Conall Gulban.
Bannerman, John, "The Scottish Takeover of Pictland" in Dauvit Broun & Thomas Owen Clancy (eds.) Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots. Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland. T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1999.
Other major churches in the region, those established as sees following the 12th century reforms, included the Columban churches of Derry and Raphoe, and the Patrician churches of Louth, Maghera and Connor.
Pollen's name is commemorated in the species epithet's of the Comoros Olive Pigeon (Columba pollenii), of the Pollen's Vanga (Xenopirostris polleni), of the Mayotte chameleon (Furcifer polleni), and the Madagascar coastal skink (Madascincus polleni).
Deidi or Dediva (Editua in the Martyrology of Cashel) occurs elsewhere as a mother of saints such as Senán son of Fintan, Caillin (a disciple of Columba), Fedlimid of Kilmore, Daigh son of Carill, Femia, daughter of Carill, and Diarmait of Inis Clothrann.
The Pink Pigeon (N. mayeri) is its closest living relative, and together they form a lineage apart from both the typical pigeons (Columba) and the typical turtle-doves (Streptopelia), slightly closer to the latter if anything.
He was a shop stewart in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, and in 1963 became a founder member of the city's first credit union, St. Columba's Credit Union Limited, Mervue.
In 1990, Sealink was taken over by Stena Line, and with this new investment, came a £8 million re-fit for St Columba, and her name was changed to Stena Hibernia.
One of the earliest churches in Scotland, is said to have been founded here in 580 AD by Saint Drostan and Saint Columba.
Birds such as turacos, the Cameroon Olive-pigeon (Columba sjostedti), Double-toothed Barbet (Lybius bidentatus) and green bulbul are common.
Odran or Odhran (earlier: Otteran), a descendant of Conall Gulban, is usually identified with Odhron (also called Odhrán or Oran), who preceded Saint Columba in Iona.
Columba and his nephew Drostan founded a monastery here in the 6th century, of which no trace remains.
With William Sewell, who had supported him at St Columba’s, he was to become co-founder of St Peter’s College, Radley, being appointed the first Warden of Radley on 9 June 1847.
Use of the church fell following the more general use of St Columba's church in Seaton Burn, which was closer to most of the parish, and the church later closed.
Speckled Wood Pigeon, Columba hodgsonii Vigors, 1832