St. Columba
warrior saint invoked for victory in battle

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਀㰀戀㸀吀栀攀 䈀愀琀琀氀攀 漀昀 䌀甀氀 䐀爀攀椀洀栀渀攀㰀⼀戀㸀㰀戀爀㸀 The Battle of Cul Dreimhne: sometime around 560, the Irish abbot and missionary Saint Columba became involved in a quarrel with Saint Finnian of Movilla Abbey over a psalter. Columba copied the manuscript at the scriptorium under Saint Finnian, intending to keep the copy. Saint Finnian disputed his right to keep the copy. Thus, this dispute was about the ownership of the copy (whether it belonged to Saint Columba because he copied it or whether it belonged to Saint Finnian because he owned the original). King Diarmait mac Cerbaill gave the judgement, "To every cow belongs her calf, therefore to every book belongs its copy."਀㰀瀀㸀 Columba disagreed with King Diarmait's ruling against him and reportedly instigated a successful rebellion of the Ui Neill clan against the King. The battle was claimed to have caused around 3,000 casualties.਀㰀瀀㸀 St. Columba and the Isle of Iona
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From the Gollaher Family Foundation:
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Revered second only to St. Patrick Columba left an incredible theological mark across Ireland and Scotland. The young Columba spent some time at the monastery in Moville, Ireland. Intrigued by the plentiful books there, he began to make a copy of one of the psalters but was caught in the act by the abbot, who considered this akin to stealing the actual book, and he appealed to King Diarmaid for judgment. In what was probably the world’s first copyright lawsuit, the king decided the case in favor of the abbot, saying “as the calf is to the cow, so the copy is to the book.” Infuriated at this ruling, Columba followed a decidedly unsaintly course. He rallied his kinsmen and engaged the king’s army in a battle in which more than 3,000 men were killed.

In 575 Columba returned to Ireland on a peace-keeping mission, and while there defended the rights of the non-Christian bardic poets against Aed, son of King Ainmere, who had ordered their banishment.