Message #212174

[Jennifer Murdoch]

St. Columba, or Colum Cille.Columba himself, otherwise known as Colum Cille (i.e., Columb of the Church), was born in the north-west of Ireland about 521 A.D. He is represented, according to ancient chronicle, as having resigned his hereditary claim on the Kingship of the island with the object of devoting himself to a monastic life. About the year 553 he founded a monastery at Darrow, in central Ireland, which became,