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Iona

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A fertile little island 1½ m. W. of Mull, where St. Columba landed from Ireland A.D. 563, and built a monastery which was for centuries the centre of ecclesiastical life and missionary enterprise among the Scots of Scotland and Ireland and the Angles of the N. of England. It is 3½ m. long and 1½ broad.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Iona'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​i/iona.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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