| COLUMBA | Irish missionary who founded the monastery on Iona in 563 (7) |
| AIDEN | Irish saint who founded the monastery at Lindisfarne (5) |
| COLU | Which Irish saint founded a famous monastery on Iona in the Sixth Century? (7) |
| SERRA | Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784). |
| PILGRIM | One who travels a distance to a holy place, such as anyone who walks the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. where one of the starting points for this journey is the monastery at Lluc, Mallorca (7) |
| LIDDELL | Eric ---, Chinese-born Scottish athlete, rugby player and missionary who won a gold and a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics (7) |
| APOSTLE | Missionary who can handle a spoon? (7) |
| STAIDAN | He established a church and monastery on Lindisfarne and became its bishop in 635 (2,5) |
| APRIORI | Self-evidently a top man in the monastery, one... (7) |
| INDIGNE | Dishonourably, shamefully: ____ dotem quaeras, Plaut. Cist. 563 |
| IONA | Small island in the Inner Hebrides on which St Columba founded a monastery in 563 |
| BARNARDO | Dr Thomas, missionary who established a home for destitute children in the East End of London in 187 |
| MOTHERTERESA | Albanian-Indian nun and missionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979: 2 wds. |
| JOHNROSS | Scottish missionary who translated the first Korean bible, in 1887 (4,4) |
| CLOISTERS | Covered arcades in a monastery, there are many examples in Mallorca including at the Monastery of Sant Francesc in Palma and those of Santo Domingo in Inca and Pollensa (9) |
| AIDAN | Irish missionary in opera: Britten's ultimate character |
| STDABEOCSHEATH | Moorland plant named after the founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg, Co Donegal |
| LOCHNESSMONSTER | Mythical creature first attested in writing by Adomnan, ninth Abbot of Iona, in his Life of Columba (c. 700 AD) (4,4,7) |
| IOWAN | Statesmans wife got stuck in Iona in storm (5) |
| MONASTERY | St Columba founded one on Iona (9) |
