Word: columba
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...Hartman, Columba's unbeaten 137-pounder, stayed that way with an 11 to 1 decision over Icko Iben, and Gene Manfrini pinned the Crimson's Al Sawyer in the 157-pound class. Manfrini used a body press and the time of his fall...
...Sligo. In World War I, a British destroyer mistook its low-lying shape for a German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...
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...