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, ...

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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 ...

From Ireland in his little coracle the missionary-saint, Columba, sailed to the isle of lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland’s west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona’s misty, rainy four square ...

Catholic pilgrims have again returned to Iona, the coastal island where St. Columba launched the evangelization of Scotland more than 1,400 years ago. Sixty people walked for dozens of miles from June ...