Word: columba
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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 miles, he established a base in the great Celtic Christianizing that swept eastward from Ireland to Britain, across to the Continent - and as far south as Vienna...
...place of kings. Says Historian A. J. Toynbee: had it not been for one of history's incalculable shifts, lona, instead of Rome, might have been the Christian capital of western Europe.* In the 13th Century Benedictines began to build an abbey on lona. Before he died, St. Columba had made a prophecy...
...last week came a handsome, witty Scot who is making St. Columba's 1,400-year-old prophecy look better & better. Under his guidance the grey stones of the abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy...
...city appeared at its most venerable. "None but churchgoers seemed abroad . . . undergraduates and graduates and wives and tradespeople, walking with that unmistakable English church-going pace . . . holding, bound in black lambskin and white celluloid, the liturgies of half a dozen conflicting sects; on their way to St. Barnabas, St. Columba, St. Aloysius, St. Mary's, Pusey House. Blackfriars ... all in the summer sunshine going to the temples of their race. Four proud infidels alone proclaimed their dissent: four Indians from the gates of Balliol, in freshly laundered white flannels and neatly pressed blazers, with snow-white turbans on their...
Gentle Sister Columba, one of seven Little Sisters of the Poor: "Germany looked a dead country as far as we could see. It seemed to have no life about...