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, ...

In 563 AD, St Columba – an Irish abbot – sailed to Iona. The sky pressed low and wisps of cloud dripped onto the land, while ...

In 1957, the British archaeologist Charles Thomas developed an unprovable hunch. He had excavated a wooden hut on the Scottish island of Iona, and came to believe that it had been used by Saint ...

For me, pilgrimage begins with the Isle of Iona. I started going there with my parents in the earliest days of childhood. We traveled from the heart of landlocked Perthshire: as the crow flies it’s a ...