Kolumba

Mtume wa Wapikti.

Kolumba (7 Desemba 521 – 9 Juni 597) — anayejulikana pia kama Colum Cille, Colm Cille, Calum Cille, Colum Keeilley, Kolban na Kolbjørn (maana yake "Njiwa wa Kanisa") - alikuwa mmonaki mmisionari kutoka Ireland aliyeeneza Ukristo kati ya Wapikti wa Scotland na anahesabiwa kati ya Mitume kumi na wawili wa Ireland.

Anaheshimiwa na madhehebu mbalimbali kama mtakatifu. Sikukuu yake ni tarehe ya kifo chake, 9 Juni.

Sala yake

Peke yangu, pasipo yeyote mbali nawe, Mungu wangu, nasafiri katika njia yangu.

Niogope nini, ukiwa karibu nami, mtawala usiku na mchana?

Katika mkono wako niko salama kuliko kama ningezungukwa na jeshi kunilinda.

Marejeo

• Adomnán (c. 700), Reeves, William, ed., Life of Saint Columba, Founder of Hy., Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1874, http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T201040/index.html, retrieved 2008-09-14 
• Tranter, Nigel G. (1987), Columba, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-40699-2, http://books.google.com/?id=rJpjAAAAMAAJ, retrieved 2008-09-14 
• Broun, Dauvit (1999), Thomas, Owen Clancy, ed., Spes Scotorum, Hope of Scots: Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland, T&T Clark, ISBN 0-567-08682-8, http://books.google.com/?id=fJcEAAAACAAJ, retrieved 2008-09-14 
• Magnusson (1990), The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-39518-6, http://books.google.com/?id=DN6RHgAACAAJ, retrieved 2008-09-14 
• Lewis, James (2007), Paths of Exile: Narratives of St. Columba and the Praxis of Iona, Cloverdale Corporation, ISBN 1-929569-24-6, http://books.google.com/?id=DN6RHgAACAAJ, retrieved 2008-09-14 
• Campbell, George F (2006), The First and Lost Iona, Glasgow: Candlemas Hill Publishing, ISBN 1-873586-13-2 (and on Kindle), http://www.corbie.com/campbellbook.htm 

Viungo vya nje

• St. Columba of Iona Orthodox Monastery
• CELT: On the Life of Saint Columba (Betha Choluim Chille) (tr. W. Stokes)
• CELT: The Life of Columba, written by Adamnan (tr. W. Reeves)
• "St. Columba". Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04136a.htm. 
• BBC: St Columba
• The Church of St Michael and All Angels website: St Columba of Iona, Apostle to the Picts
• St Columba on SaintsAlive
• Photo of the birthplace of Columcille at Gartan
• Coláiste Choilm

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