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Hello everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. I am Taylor Kemp, the director of Formed, and with me today is Dr.

Elizabeth Klein. Dr. Klein.

Taylor.

It is a pleasure to have you.

Thanks for having me.

It's always great to talk with you about the saint.

So today we are talking about St. Calmkill.

I have had some trouble pronouncing that name just to be upfront about that.

Right.

So St. Calmkill is an Irish slash Scottish saint. It also goes by St. Columba. That's easier to say. You can say that if that's easier to say. I'm going to stick with it. Calm kill. But if you've ever heard of anyone named Colm, like Colm Wilkinson, like the famous Jean Valjean of Leem is, that's this name. so he, okay, so we got some namesakes. Colm Kill. All right, so we are talking about St. Colm Kill. What, who is St. Colm Kill? So St. Colm Kill lived in the 6th century, so from 521 to 597 are his approximate dates. And he is famous as the Apostle of Scotland, particularly of Caledonia or a group in Scotland

known as the Picts.

Okay.

Because there were some Scottish people converted before him.

So that's what he's famous for.

He founded an abbey, the Abbey of Iona, which is one of the most significant abbees

of this period.

It's incredibly important for the evangelization of the British Isles.

So we have done a bunch of kind of like Celtic, British saints before, like Huthbert and

Beed, and all of these people were directly affected by the founding of Iona,

because a lot of the missionaries came from there into the north of England, and this was like

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