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The idea to send the relic came from the Rev. Robert McCulloch, the Australian procurator general of the St. Columban Catholic missionary order.

From US News • Jan. 7, 2016

But he got his master's degree from Ireland's National University, studied for the priesthood, and was ordained in the Society of St. Columban.

From Time Magazine Archive

Columban Monasteries, Egbert's mission to, 318, 319, 375 n.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

Columban monks made a second Iona at Lindisfarne, with its church of hewn oak thatched with reeds after Irish tradition in sign of poverty and lowliness, and with its famous school of art and learning.

From Irish Nationality by Green, Alice Stopford

Third Council of Toledo—The Spanish Church renounces Arianism 134 — Columban goes into France 139 590.

From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie