Materials for a History of the Church and Priory of Monymusk (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Materials for a History of the Church and Priory of Monymusk While we cannot h0pe to have the uncertainty removed as to whether Monymusk is really a Columban foundation, yet, if it owes its origin to some of Columba's followers, as we are pleased to think such an authority as Dr. Reeves says is probable, it is a matter of interest to try to reproducea picture of the life and thoughts of those first Christian teachers that our country had. Chief of all our sources of information is the authentic biography of St. Columba by his kinsman Adamnan, who was born only twenty-seven years after Columba died, and who, becoming ninth abbot of Iona (from 697 to was the ablest and most accomplished of his successors. In his work, the oldest existing book known to have been written in Scotland an inestimable literary relic - he embodies an earlier life by Cumin, the seventh abbot (from 657 to who was near enough in time to have seen Columba. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.