Adamnan
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Saint Adamnan or Adomnan (625-704) was an historian. He was born in Donegal, and was abbot of the monastery at Iona from 679 to 704. Like other Irish churchmen he was a statesman as well as an ecclesiastic, and appears to have been sent on various political missions. In the great controversy on the subject of the holding of Easter, he sided with Rome against the Irish Church. He was the author of the Vita Sancti Columbæ (The Life of Saint Columba), which gives a minute account of the condition and discipline of the church of Iona. He was related to Columba, and was also responsible for the Cáin Adomnáin, or the Law of Adomnán. In 700 he convinced 51 kings and 40 spiritual leaders to adopt the law, which changed the relationship between women and priests in Ireland. He also wrote a book, On the Holy Land, wherein he processed the data of a Frankish priest who had paid a visit to Muslim-occupied Syria and Palestine; the earliest account we have of the state of Palestine in the early ages of the Church.
His feast day is September 23.