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521

Years: 517 518 519 520 - 521 - 522 523 524 525 Decades: 490s 500s 510s - 520s - 530s 540s 550s Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Events Future Byzantine emperor Justinian becomes consul. Samson of Dol is ordained as a bishop. Births December 7 - Saint Columba at Gartan...

597

Deaths June 9 - Saint Columba Fredegund, queen of Neustria Zhiyi, founder of the Tiantai sect of... Years: 593 594 595 596 - 597 - 598 599 600 601 Decades: 560s 570s 580s - 590s - 600s 610s 620s Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Events Saint Augustine is created...

563

Years: 559 560 561 562 - 563 - 564 565 566 567 Decades: 530s 540s 550s - 560s - 570s 580s 590s Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century Events Saint Columba, the Irish missionary, founds his mission to the Picts and his monastery on Iona. Justinian re-consecrates Hagia Sophia...

593

Ceawlin of Wessex (traditional date) Hussa, king of Bernicia (traditional date) June 9 - Saint Columba Creoda of Mercia...

Cullompton

Cullompton is a town in Devon, England, lying on the River Culm and close to the M5 motorway. It has a population of around 8,000 people. The town is thought to have been named for Saint Columba. Notable buildings in Cullompton include the fifteenth century parish church and sixteenth century...

Saint Mirin

of this saint there became a centre of pilgrimage. A contemporary of Saint Columba and disciple of Saint Comgall he is venerated in both Ireland and Scotland. He is the patron saint of Paisley's...

Adamnan

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Iona

Alternate uses: see Iona (disambiguation). Iona , population 175, is an island of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. In 563 Saint Columba, exiled from his native Ireland, founded a monastery here, and... be adjacent to the beach where Saint Columba landed...

560

Deira (traditional date). Saint Columba quarrels with Saint Finnian over authorship of a psalter...

561

battle erupts after a dispute between Saint Columba and Saint Finnian over authorship of a psalter. As penance for these deaths, Columba was ordered to make the same number of new converts as had...

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