St Columba: A Medieval Clairvoyant? July 6, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
***Dedicated to Paula de Fougerolles whose new book on Columba is the best historical novel on the Dark Ages since T. H. White laid down his pen*** St Columba of Iona (obit 597) is perhaps the most interesting of all the medieval Gaelic saints: and given the strange holy fauna running around the Irish jungle […]
An Early Sighting of the Loch Ness Monster? April 27, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Medieval saints were famous for their encounters with dangerous animals. In their Lives we read of confrontations with wolves, bears, stags and snakes; but also of meetings with more exotic creatures. Beachcombing thinks of St George facing down a dragon or St Brendan and his monks celebrating communion on the back of an enormous sea […]
