Iona [island] - Aiona

Japanese: アイオナ[島] - あいおな
Iona [island] - Aiona

…born in Donegal as a member of the royal family. After 15 years of traveling around Ireland, devoting himself to spreading Christianity and building monasteries, in 563 he traveled with 12 disciples to the Scottish island of Iona, where he founded a monastery and worked to educate the Picts. The strict rules established by the monastery were followed by many Irish monasteries in Scotland, England, and other parts of Western Europe, but were later replaced by the more relaxed rules of the Benedictine Order. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Iona [Island]" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…王族の一員としてドニゴールで生まれた。15年間アイルランド島を旅してキリスト教の布教と修道院の建設に尽くした後,563年,12人の弟子とともにスコットランドのアイオナ島に渡り,修道院を設立して,ピクト族の教化につとめた。同院で定められた厳格な諸規則は,スコットランド,イングランドをはじめ,西ヨーロッパ各地に建立された多くのアイルランド系修道院の規則として守られていたが,後にベネディクト会のゆるやかな規則に取って代わられた。…

※「アイオナ[島]」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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