A different saint

WITH my roots in Donegal and Derry, I appreciated the historical information on St Columba (Colmcille) contained in your article (Farming, August 11).

However, St Columbanus, after whom the Knights of St Columbanus is named, was a different saint, who carried his mission as far as Bobbio in Italy.

In Britain, there is an organisation called the Knights of St Columba named after our Donegal-born saint.