Venerable Columba, abbot of Iona and enlightener of Scotland.
Saint Columba was born in Ireland of a noble family in 521 and became a monk and founder of monasteries. In 563 he left Ireland with twelve companions and settled on the island of Iona, from which he preached to the Picts of Scotland and established a monastic community that shaped the Church of the British Isles.
He reposed at Iona in 597, and the accounts of his life record his gifts of prophecy and many miracles.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Columba of Iona is commemorated on June 9. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on June 22 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Also commemorated on June 9
Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria
Hierarch, Κύριλλος
St. Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, Pillar of Orthodoxy.
Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary and Ennatha, Virgin Martyrs of Persia
Holy Woman, Θέκλα, Μαριάμνη, Μάρθα, Μαρία και Ενναθά
Holy Five Virgin Martyrs Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary and Ennatha, beheaded in Persia under Shapur II.
Alexander of Prusa
Hierarch, Αλέξανδρος Επίσκοπος Προύσας
Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Prusa in Bithynia, beheaded for Christ.
Cyril of White Lake
Venerable, Κύριλλος ο εν τη Λευκή Λίμνη
Venerable Cyril, founder and abbot of the monastery of White Lake (Belozersk), a great father of Russian monasticism.
Alexander of Kushta
Venerable, Αλέξανδρος του Κούστα
Venerable Alexander, abbot of Kushta in Vologda, a hermit of the Russian north.
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