Columba

Saint Columba was a 6th century holy man who experienced the first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster in 565. The historian and Abbot of Iona Adamnan wrote of Columba's experience and described it as "the driving away of a certain water monster by virtue of prayer of the holy man". This encounter was later included in the book The Secret Lives of Monsters. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)