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...sonar evidence gives new life to the Loch Ness legend, which has been tracked back as far as a 6th century biography of St. Columba. The work attributes "the driving away of a certain water monster by prayer" to the holy man, who was walking near the lake...
...gave up his parish ministry in a Glasgow slum and with a group of sympathetic clerics and unemployed workers went to the tiny island of lona, off the west coast of Scotland. It was a meaningful and symbolic choice: from lona during the sixth century, the Irish missionary St. Columba set forth to Christianize the wild and pagan Scots. There MacLeod sought to build a cooperative community of dedicated Christians who would unite work, study and prayer-a modern Protestant counterpart of the ancient monastic ideal...
...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
...Conservative Party is the conservation of that deposit of faith, that living experience which came here with Columba and Augustine 14 centuries ago, and expressed itself in a living society, a nation nurtured in honor, compassion and love, dedicated to endless adventure in the pursuit pf liberty under...
Foster, after pinning Pittsburgh's Tony Vuocolo in 2:56 in the preliminary round, gained the semi-finals with a 4-2 decision win over Columba's Gene Appel. Then, in the semis, he turned back Doug Volugenau of Navy 8 to 5. In the finals, however Foster dropepd a 9-4 decision to Lehigh's Ed Hamer and gained only a second place...