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    Ninian is a Christian saint, first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland. For this...
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    St Ninian's Isle is a small tied island connected by the largest tombolo in the UK to the south-western coast of the Mainland, Shetland, in Scotland. It...
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  • The SS Saint Ninian was a steam cargo ship of the British Merchant Navy. She was built in 1894 and served during the First World War. She was sunk by a...
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    ISBN 0-345-34957-1. "Saint Ninian". The Whithorn Trust. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. "Butler, Alban. "The Lives of the Saints", Vol. VII, 1866"...
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    Whithorn'. The village is the location of the long ruined 13th-century Saint Ninian's Chapel, previously a chapel linked to Whithorn Priory and a stopping...
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    Roman Catholic pilgrimage by way of its association with the Scottish saint Ninian. Excavations in the cave in the 1880s and the 1950s uncovered a collection...
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    tourist industry probably employs more people and generates more income. Saint Ninian first brought Christianity to what-would-become Scotland via the Machars...
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  • The Vita Sancti Niniani ("Life of Saint Ninian") or simply Vita Niniani ("Life of Ninian") is a Latin language Christian hagiography written in northern...
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  • Nairn St. Ninian JFC are a Scottish football club based in Nairn, Highland. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently play in...
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    does not remark on the Picts as pagans. Bede wrote that Saint Ninian (confused by some with Saint Finnian of Moville, who died c. 589), had converted the...
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  • ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian in the mid-5th century. The subsequent Anglo-Saxon bishopric was founded...
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    feminine form of the masculine name Ninian, with the likes of the 5th-century (male) saint Ninian and the river Ninian. Further theories connect her to the...
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    St Ninian's Cave was visited. Early in April, he arrived at the shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn. He fasted four or five days and prayed to the saint, before...
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    Candida Casa "White/Shining House", built by Saint Ninian about 397 CE. There is a tradition that St Ninian built a church of stone and lime nearby in the...
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    St Ninian's Church is an Anglican church in the Parkfield area of Douglas, Isle of Man, and falls within the Diocese of Sodor and Man. St Ninian's Church...
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    aristocratic devotional texts, the book contains a Collect of Saint Ninian, referencing a saint popular in the Anglo-Scottish Borders. Despite this, the image...
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    St Ninian's Church is a Parish church of the Scottish Episcopal Church located in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, Scotland. The church was built on...
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    (Supplement). 9 November 1905. p. 7495. Hugh Dawson, A Guide to the Chapel of Saint Ninian, Mar Lodge, Braemar. The Scottish Episcopal Church, Braemar 2015 "ASSUAN...
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  • Wallace and Saint Ninian, the first evangeliser north of Hadrian's Wall. The island is known for the ruins of a chapel built by Saint Ninian, for its Celtic...
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    Ninekirks is the local name for St Ninian's church, Brougham, Cumbria. Dedicated to Saint Ninian, it was formerly the Anglican parish church for Brougham...
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  • Saint Ninian's High School or St Ninian's High School may refer to: St Ninian's High School, Douglas, Isle of Man St Ninian's High School, Giffnock, East...
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    The Church of St Ninian is a former place of worship in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The building was a proprietor church, the only one in the whole...
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    Personal Ordinariate of the Southern Cross designated the Church of Saints Ninian and Chad in Perth as the principal church of the ordinariate, which...
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    being founded in 397 by Saint Ninian. Coroticus (or Ceretic) was an apostate Pict king who was the recipient of the letter from Saint Patrick. His base may...
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  • St Ninian's Church may refer to any of a number of churches dedicated to Saint Ninian: in England St Ninian's Church, Brougham, Cumbria St Ninian's Church...
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    Christians in Scotland were converted by Saint Ninian around 400 AD. Early Christian missionaries included Saint Columba, who founded a mission at Iona...
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    (born 354 BC). Helian Ding, emperor of the Chinese Xiongnu state Xia. Saint Ninian, missionary in Scotland (approximate date) Wang Hong, official of the...
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    St Ninian's Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Ninian) in Perth is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of St Andrews...
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    Peter Purves Phil Jackson Richard Abbot Richard T. Slone Robert Southey Saint Ninian Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sarah Hall Sheila Fell Sir James Ramsden Sir...
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    Saint Gregory the Great, pope and doctor – Feast (eW) 4 September – Saint Cuthbert, bishop – Optional Memorial (eW) 17 September – Saint Ninian, bishop...
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