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Mathrubhumi English Nov 21

St. Columba`s headmistress among 4 staff suspended after Class 10 student`s suicide note. Delhi Govt orders high-level probe. Read details now. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/st-columbas-headmistress-suspended-suicide-probe-nq6j33sx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #StColumba #suspended #suicide #MentalHarassment

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Claire Barnes Jul 30, 2025

@mrundkvist I didn't - interesting! adding the English-language page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakwkylla
#Kakwkylla #StColumba #StGertrude
@StefanieBll

Kakwkylla - Wikipedia

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Jun 9, 2025

“Nor is heaven as is alleged.
Nor is hell as is asserted…”

Scaring off the Loch Ness Monster is quite an achievement, but my favourite St Columba story is the one where he buries St Oran alive, twice

—from CARMINA GADELICA, via the National Library of Scotland

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https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/75758828?mode=transcription

#Scottish #literature #history #Saints #legends #StColumba

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Jun 9, 2025

“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.”

The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ (“Life of St Columba”, c.7th/8th century). St Columba sends it packing

(The story is too long for the ALT text but the whole transcript can be found via the link)

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columba-e.asp

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Jun 9, 2025

Columba has a fair claim to being Scotland’s first patron saint. What were (possibly) his relics were (perhaps) carried as the Breacbennach battle standard at the forefront of the Scottish army at Bannockburn

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https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2015/05/27/glenmorangie-research-project-monymusk-reliquary/

#Scottish #history #medieval #Saints #StColumba #Bannockburn

Glenmorangie Research Project: Monymusk reliquary

The Monymusk reliquary is arguably the most important piece of early Christian metalwork to survive in Scotland. It is also one of the most iconic objects in National Museums Scotland's archaeology collections. As part of the Glenmorangie Research Project we are currently revisiting this most fascinating find, looking again at how the reliquary is constructed … <a href="https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2015/05/27/glenmorangie-research-project-monymusk-reliquary/">Continued</a>

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Jun 9, 2025

Where’s Brude? Where’s Brude?
So many souls to be saved!

—Edwin Morgan, “Columba’s Song”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

Today, 9 June, is the feast day of St Columba (c.521–597), who led the Irish monastic missions to Dál Riata & the kingdoms of the Picts

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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

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Undiscovered Scotland Jun 9, 2025

1,428 years ago today. St Columba died in the monastery he had built on the island of Iona on 9 June 597. It would subsequently become one of the most important in Europe. More about St Columba: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/stcolumba.html More about Iona Abbey today: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/abbey/index.html

#Scotland #StColumba

Matt Hodgkinson Mar 17, 2025

In a speech at the High Court of King Diarmaid in 6th Century Ireland, St. Columba aka Colmcille advocated for the right to copy books ~1500 years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Ray Corrigan, 2007 http://oro.open.ac.uk/10332/1/GIKII_Colmcille_final.pdf).

Diarmaid ruled against him; Colmcille's subsequent rebellion led to 3000 deaths in the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_C%C3%BAl_Dreimhne

More in @mmasnick's #TechDirt article: https://www.techdirt.com/2009/08/20/the-very-first-copyright-trial-in-6th-century-ireland-sounds-really-familiar/

#OpenAccess #StColumba #Colmcille #IrishHistory #Copyright