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when Iona was part of the Kingdom of Dál Riata. Saint Aidan served as a monk there in the 7th century before helping to re-establish Christianity in Northumberland, on the island of Lindisfarne.

In the 12th century, the Macdonald lords of Clan Donald made Iona the ecclesiastical capital of the royal family of Macdonald, and subsequent Lords of the Isles

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