Columba

Columba (7 December 521 – 9 June 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.

Quotes

• Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.
  • Adamnan, Life of Saint Columba, Ch. 28: "How an Aquatic Monster was driven off by virtue of the blessed man's prayer". Translated by William Reeves, The Historians of Scotland, vol. 6 (1874)

• Where comes a cow, there follows a woman; and where comes a woman follows trouble.
  • Attributed in Seumas MacManus, Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain (1950) Ch. 3