In the afternoon we visited Iona Abbey and Nunnery on the Isle of Iona. St Columba founded the monastery in AD 563 which went on to attract pilgrims from afar. Around 1200, a Benedictine abbey replaced the monastery and the nunnery was built at a discreet distance. The Scottish Reformation of 1560 put an end to monastic life and the abbey and the nunnery gradually fell into ruins. The nunnery remains a ruin, but the abbey was restored during the twentieth century and remains a place of Christian communion today.
Photo shows Iona Abbey
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