St. Columba of Iona
Subtitle: A Study Of His Life, His Times, & His Influence
Publisher: London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface v; title: Introduction xi; title: CHAP.; title: I. Youth and Training 1; title: II. Early Foundations in Ireland: The Miracles 13; title: III. The Battle of Culdreimhne 21; title: IV. The Arrival at Iona 37; title: V. State of Europe, of Scotland, and of Iona when Columba Landed There 49; title: VI. The Monastic Settlement at Iona 56; title: VII. The Rule of Columba 72; title: VIII. The Conversion of the Picts: Columba's Contests with the Druids 81; title: IX. The Grafting of Christianity on Celtic Heathenism 101; title: X. Columba as Father of the Family of Iona 117; title: XI. The Coronation of Aid an and the Synod of Drumceatt 133; title: XII. Among the Western Isles 146; title: XIII. The Apostle of Caledonia 162; title: XIV. Columba's Writings 170; title: XV. The Last Years 178; title: XVI. Lindisfarne: The Cradle of English Christianity 196; title: XVII. Columba's Influence on the Scottish Nation and Church 208; title: Appendix. Notes on the History of Iona, 860-1905 212; title: List of Columban Foundations 216; title: Bibliography 219; title: Index 225; title: The Frontispiece is after an Engraving of the Picture Iona : looking West, by John MacWhirter, R.A.