Some of the “parishioners” had four legs and their howls, yelps and chirps could be heard from blocks away when St. Columba Church held its annual blessing of the animals to honor St. Francis ...

A statue of Londonderry's patron saint, Columba, has been unveiled in the city park that bears his name, St Columb's. The statue of the saint, also known as Colmcille, stretches nine feet to the ...

Exhibition of artefacts celebrates St. Columba's 1,500th birthday A new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland has opened celebrating the life of the Irish patron saint on the 1,500th ...

Columba’s relics were finally removed in 849 AD and divided between Alba and Ireland. The Monymusk Reliquary, from around 750 AD, probably contained a relic of St Columba.