Holy Islands
A huge number of the islands of Scotland have some kind of culdee/church connection, and/or are dominated by a church. The more notable include:
- Davaar Island
- Egilsay
- Eynhallow
- Holy Isle
- Inchcolm
- Inch Kenneth
- Inchmahome (F)
- Iona
- Isle Maree
- North Rona
- Oronsay
- Papa Stronsay (current Transalpine Redemptorist monastery. Islands called "Papa" or "Pabbay" tend to be former saints' islands)
- St Ninian's Isle
- St Serf's Inch (F)
- Tiree ("land of Iona")
Brother Isle's name is not ecclesiastical in origin as is sometimes stated.
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“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 14:21.
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