The pilgrimage reliquary contains the relics of St. Columba, St. Andrew, and St. Margaret of Scotland, the country’s patron saints. Pilgrims traveled on foot and by ferry from the Scottish west coast, ...

SAINT Columba has cropped up a few times in our tales so far but has never been the main man. So, St Columba: come on, down! He put the bite on the Loch Ness Monster, and is blamed for spreading ...

St George may have slain a dragon, but St Columba tamed the Loch Ness Monster. Or so the stories go. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...

In 1957, the British archaeologist Charles Thomas developed an unprovable hunch. He had excavated a wooden hut on the Scottish island of Iona, and came to believe that it had been used by Saint ...

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On Aug. 22, 565, St. Columba, a Celtic missionary and abbot, became the first recorded observer of the famous Loch Ness Monster. According to his biographer, Adomnan in the “Life of St. Columba,” the ...

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Archaeologists have located one of the most important buildings in the history of Western European Christianity – but it’s not a vast cathedral or an impressive tomb, but merely a humble wattle and ...

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