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What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

This describes the lighting situation in Iona Abbey on the wee isle off the west coast of Scotland. You could say I was following in the footsteps of St. Columba but about 1,400 years too late.

For the next two centuries Iona was to be one of the most famous centres of Christian learning in the Celtic world. Video: A history of Scotland: The Last of the Free.