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'''The Life of Columba - Book I''' is the first part of the life story of saint [[Columba]] entitled '''Of His Prophetic Revelations''' and was written by Adomnán ([[627]]/[[628|8]]-[[704]]), the Ninth Abbott of Iona ([[679]]-[[704]]).   
'''The Life of Columba - Book I''' is the first part of the life story of saint [[Columba]] entitled '''Of His Prophetic Revelations''' and was written by Adomnán (627/628-704), the Ninth Abbott of Iona (679-704).   


'''BOOK I. OF HIS PROPHETIC REVELATIONS.'''
'''BOOK I. OF HIS PROPHETIC REVELATIONS.'''
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Here endeth this first Book, and the next Book treateth of the wonderful miracles, which generally accompanied his prophetic foreknowledge.
Here endeth this first Book, and the next Book treateth of the wonderful miracles, which generally accompanied his prophetic foreknowledge.
==Source==
<small> Source: Life of Saint Columba, Founder of Hy. Written by Adomnán, ed. William Reeves, ( Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1874)  This text was taken from the [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/columba-e.html Internet Medieval Source Book]. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history.
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