In Adamnan’s Life of St Columba c640, Adamnan records that there appeared to Columba the vision of an angel who held in his hand ‘a glass book of the Ordination of Kings’. On meeting Aidan, and ‘laying his hand upon his head, he ordained him and blessed him’.  Aidan was made King of Dalriada, the modern … Continue reading A Reflection on the Coronation of King Charles III