Columba
521–597
6th‑century Gaelic Irish missionary monk, Christian saint, pioneer of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and “Apostle of the Picts”
missionary · monk
Born in County Donegal
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Columba:
- Muhammad (571–632)
- Abu Bakr (573–634)
- Justinian I (482–565)
- Gregory I (540–604)
- Uthman ibn Affan (574–656)
- Aryabhata (476–550)
- Benedict of Nursia (480–547)
- Khadija bint Khuwaylid (557–619)
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