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St. AdamnanSt. 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 Columb, giving a minute account of the condition and discipline of the church of Iona. See also Adamnan
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