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Columba

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Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts
Name	Saint Columba or Colmcille
Titles	Apostle of the Picts
Birth date	December 7, 521
Birth place	Gartan, County Donegal, Ireland
Death date	June 9, 597(age 75)
Death place	Iona, Scotland
Venerated in	Catholic Church Eastern Orthodoxy Lutheran Church Anglican Communion Presbyterian Church
Major shrine	Iona, Scotland
Feast	June 9
Patronage	Derry, floods, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland

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Saint Columba (7 December 521 � 9 June 597 AD)—also known as Colum Cille (Old Irish, meaning "dove of the church"), Colm Cille (Irish), Calum Cille (Scottish Gaelic) and Kolban or Kolbjørn (Old Norse, meaning "black bear")—was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.

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