The pilgrimage reliquary contains the relics of St. Columba, St. Andrew, and St. Margaret of Scotland, the country’s patron saints. Pilgrims traveled on foot and by ferry from the Scottish west coast, ...

“The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere.” —Arthur Conan Doyle On August 22, AD 565, 1,451 years ago, St. Columba had a story for the ages.

Catholic pilgrims have again returned to Iona, the coastal island where St. Columba launched the evangelization of Scotland more than 1,400 years ago. Sixty people walked for dozens of miles from June ...