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June 23
As the Season Turns
The Importance of Iona's History
June's Island, Iona 56.34 degrees north, 6.4 degrees west, 58 kilometers west of Oban, Scotland, 160 kilometers north of Derry, Northern Ireland, population 170. A chip of rock off the southwest corner of Mull, Windblown Iona is barely three miles long. In a seafaring age the island would not have felt so peripheral despite its location at the westerly edge of the known world. Here Colm Killer founded a monastery that would change the course of British history bringing Celtic Christianity to Scotland and Northern England. This year will be the 1,500 second anniversary of his birth.
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