Tour Scotland video of the Saint Columba stained glass window in the Episcopal Church on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. This window depicts St Columba bearing the cross before him, as he would have on various missionary journeys to the Picts.
Saint Columba, born 7 December 521, died 9 June 597, was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on the Island Of Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the Patron Saint of Derry. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as a Christian saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
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