Columba

Family: Scots · Role: mass-priest, abbot · First appears: A.D. 560–625

Life events

• 560 · Columba built a monastery on the island of Hii.(A.D. 560–625 · 📍 Hii)
  • “where Columba built a monastary.”
• 560 · Columba died at Hii.(A.D. 560–625 · 📍 Hii)
  • “There he was abbot two and thirty winters; and there he died, when he was seventy-seven years old.”

A.D. 560–625

• with Pope Gregory (Baptism is reported as sent, but no individual recipient is named.) “In his days the holy Pope Gregory sent us baptism.”
• with Ninnia (No relationship between Columba and Ninnia is stated; omitted.) “The Southern Picts were long before baptized by Bishop Ninnia, who was taught at Rome.”

Also listed in Scots — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.