Starter quiz
- Match these words to their definition.
- patronage⇔the support given by a person to another person, organisation or cause ✓
- monastery⇔a building lived in by a community of monks who follow religious vows ✓
- monk⇔a member of a community of men living under religious vows ✓
- Skellig Michael is an ...
- 'island' ✓
- Who supported the monasteries?
- kings ✓
- poor people
- rich people ✓
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- Clonmacnoise and Glendalough are the names of two...
- 'monastries' ✓
- What were monasteries important centres for?
- learning ✓
- religion ✓
- culture ✓
- dancing
- walking
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- Why were the monasteries large and full of valuable objects?
- They were given money and gifts. ✓
- They stole money and gifts.
- They made money and gifts.
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Exit quiz
- Where was St Columba born?
- 'Ireland' ✓
- When did St Columba travel to Iona?
- 262 CE
- 563 CE ✓
- 764 CE
- 865 CE
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- Match the words to their definitions.
- Iona⇔a small Scottish island ✓
- Picts⇔a tribe of people who lived in what is now northeastern Scotland ✓
- Gaul⇔an ancient region of Western Europe ✓
- Where is St Columba a patron saint of?
- Ireland ✓
- Scotland ✓
- Wales
- England
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- When did St Columbanus travel to Italy?
- 611 CE ✓
- 750 CE
- 800 CE
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- Where is St Columbanus buried?
- Iona abbey
- Annegray abbey
- Bobbio abbey ✓
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Key learning points
- The strength of Christianity in Ireland led to its own missionary activity, and Irish missionaries travelled widely.
- St Columba was one of these, and travelled to the Scottish island of Iona in the late 6th century to set up a monastery.
- From Iona, St Columba spread Christianity through the Pictish territories of Western and Northern Scotland.
- St Columbanus went to Gaul at the end of the 6th century and founded two monasteries before travelling across Europe.
Common misconception
The missionaries found it easy to convert people to Christianity.
The missionaries like St Columba and St Columbanus experienced resistance from kings and bishops which sometimes led to major problems and even battle.
Keywords
Missionary - A missionary is a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country
Iona - Iona is a small Scottish island
Picts - Picts were a tribe of people who lived in what is now eastern and northeastern Scotland
Gaul - Gaul was an ancient region of Western Europe which included France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy
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