(July 13, 2017 at 1:40 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: We have documents that are specifically written by Washington and Lincoln, with there signatures and responses from other folks to them directly in letters, diaries, speeches, etc. We have newspaper articles and pictures. We don't have anything like that for Jesus, so I'm not sure why Huggy thinks Washington and Lincoln are at all comparable.
Go back and look at the OP, it's about St. Columba, not Jesus. The issue raised wasn't whether or not St. Columba existed, but if the historical accounts of his life are factual.
That being said I'm sure you can find events attributed to Washington or Lincoln that aren't factual.