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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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St Columba
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(c.521–97) The most influential of the early Irish missionary saints through his founding of the monastery on *Iona. He went there with 12 disciples in 563 and used it as a base from which to convert the *Picts in mainland Scotland. His feast day is June 9.
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