Where is St Colmcille associated with?

Donegal and Derry / Londonderry in Ireland.

Dove of the church, one of the three patrons

St Colmcille

Q: Who was St Colmcille?

Dove of the church, one of the three patrons. A prince of the Cenél Conaill who founded Derry and then, tradition says, went into exile after a battle fought over a copied psalter — the world's first copyright dispute, settled with the judgment 'to every cow its calf, to every book its copy'. On Iona he built the monastery that converted Pictland and Northumbria and probably produced the Book of Kells.

Naomh Colm Cille

Feast day · 9 June

🏔 Donegal 🏔 Derry / Londonderry Source: Wikipedia ↗

The story

Columba — St Colmcille — Columba Photograph: J. R. Skelton (Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton; 1865–1927) (illustrator), erroneously credited as John R. Skelton · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

A prince of the Cenél Conaill who founded Derry and then, tradition says, went into exile after a battle fought over a copied psalter — the world's first copyright dispute, settled with the judgment 'to every cow its calf, to every book its copy'. On Iona he built the monastery that converted Pictland and Northumbria and probably produced the Book of Kells.

The name they gave

Colm — “KUL-um”

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