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    THE CULDEES OF IONA.*

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY i , AND REVIEWNEW SERIES , No . XIL

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    DECEMBER , 1827 .

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    In or about the year 563 , Columba , with twelve faithful followers , left his native country of Ireland , ( that land so celebrated for the early establishment and cultivation of Christian communities as to be distinguished by the peculiar title of " the Land of the Saints , " ) and came , as the Venerable Bede records , " to preach the word of God to the provinces of the Northern Picts . " After converting that nation to the faith of Christ by his preaching and example , he is said by the same historian to have received from them

    { he island of Hii , ( variously called by that name , and by those of Iona and Icolmkill , &c ., ) for the purpose of erecting a monastery , of which he was the first Abbot , his companions forming a college or community of elders . Iona is a small island of considerable comparative fertility ; separated from Scotland by a narrow channel , and only about three miles in length and from half a mile to a mile in breadth . The view of it , according to Pennant , is very picturesque ; the east side exhibiting a beautiful variety ; an extent of plain , a little elevated above the water , almost covered with the

    tfuins of the sacred buildings , and with the remains of the old town still inhabited . Beyond these the island rises into little rocky hills , with narrow verdant hollows between , numerous enough for every recluse to take his solitary walk undisturbed by society . In this retirement , surrounded only by barbarous tribes , and exposed to the incessant ravages of warlike pirates , religious zeal induced Columba and his followers to devote themselves to the

    labours of their profession . Tradition says , that they succeeded a settlement of Druids who had previously been established there . The name which has attached to these pious brethren has been the subject of much dispute as to its origin . We are ourselves satisfied that the proper derivation of Culdees is the Gaelic one , from cuil , ceal , eel , or kil , the retreat or cell of a monk .

    The early progress of this foundation , ( as much the seat of learning as of religion and missionary zeal , ) till its establishment extended over Scotland and eame in contact with the efforts at proselytism made during the same period by the immediate disciples of Rome through the Saxon kingdoms of Britain , is necessarily involved in great obscurity . The prin-* [ A correspondent haa furnished thfe following observations on a subject inquired after in a former Numbei * . ]

    The Culdees Of Iona.*

    THE CULDEES OF IONA . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/1/