The New International Encyclopædia/Columba's Isle

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2318896The New International Encyclopædia — Columba's Isle

COLUM′BA'S ISLE. The poetic name for the island of Iona, on the western coast of Scotland, where Saint Columba, ‘The Apostle of Caledonia,’ founded a monastery about 565, and was buried in 597.