St. Adamnan (625? - 704) was an Irish historian and Saint.
He was born in Donegal, became Abbot of
Iona in 679. Like other Irish churchmen he was a statesman as well as an
ecclesiastic, and appears to have been sent on various political
missions. In the great controversy on the subject of the holding of
Easter, he sided with Rome against the Irish Church. He left the earliest
account we have of the state of Palestine in the early ages of the
Church; but of even more value is his Vita Sancti Columbę, giving a
minute account of the condition and discipline of the church of Iona.
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