Columcille (521 - 597AD)

Church remains in Donegal

Columcille (otherwise known as Columba) was born in Donegal Ireland in 521 AD, he was the great-grandson of a 5th century Irish King.  Columcille was baptized in his local parish during a period of time where Christianity was sweeping across the country.

Columcille moved to Clonard Abbey to become a monk, where he studied with many others and he became known as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.  He was ordained as a priest and he went on to set up monasteries at Kells, Derry and Swords.

Later in his life, an argument over the rights to a copy of the Book of Psalms resulted in a battle in 561, confronted at a gathering of clerics he exiled himself from Ireland.  From there he went with twelve companions to Scotland, eventually settling on the island of Iona off the west coast.  From this base he attempted to convert pagans and Kings.  He founded churches in Scotland and transcribed over 300 hundred books, he also wrote hymns and letters.  Towards the end of his life, he decided to return to Ireland and founded a monastery at Durrow, where he later died at the age of 75.

The main source of information about Columcille is in books by Adomnan(d.704), the ninth abbot of Iona.  These books contain details of his prophecies, his miracles that he performed and the apparitions that he saw during his life.

Some of his prophecies are quite distinct, foretelling the outcome of conflicts and so on, but others are short parables.  The miracles include healing people, subduing wild beasts, control over weather and storms, fighting evil spirits, and even raising the dead.  His actions to save a man from a river monster earned him fame, yet this is considered to be the source of the Loch Ness monster story, as he performed this miracle at the River Ness.

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13th Zodiac Mystery

There is something that has intrigued me about the 13^Th Zodiac ever since I learnt of its existence, it has technically been left out of the worlds calculations. There are of course 52 weeks in the year, if there are four weeks in each, that easily makes 13 months. But you see the thirteenth month has been left out, and the number 13 has been renown for 'bad luck', some cultures Tuesday the thirteenth is unlucky and some cultures Friday the thirteenth is unlucky and in recent years you such things as black Friday and the such.

I was watching a YouTube video the other day that was making theories about ancient cultures, and one of those theories is that the three Egyptian Pyramids may have been built a long earlier than people think. Their proof? Their proof id that the pyramids do not have hyroglipics on them or in them and every other Egyptian piece of stone gets covered, it is a bit strange I admit, but also it the idea that the three pyramids are based upon the sign of Orion and the location of the three stars does match roughly, but Orion in the stars is exactly opposite to the thirteenth zodiac Serpentarious.

The thirteenth zodiac is also mentioned in the Lost Book of Nostradamus, the sign itself depicts a man grasping a serpent, which is some of the imagery used in the lost book. Also the number thirteen is linked to the Mayans calender, each of the nine stages of existence contain seven days and six nights(adding up to 13 stages), this was built into their now infamous Mayan calender. There has also been found images of this thirteenth zodiac on various ancient structures, carved as it the serpent is devouring the Earth.

Even though this is not a sign that our world is about to end, it might be a sign that the last time that the world was aligned with the thirteenth zodiac that there was a terrible disaster, which could be where the unlucky feeling about the number 13 originates. Now I know there are believers and non believers in Noah's flood, but there is evidence for it around the world which I may go into at another point, however it might be possible that this is the disaster that is linked to the 13^Th zodiac and why everyone claims the number to be so unlucky.