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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Isle of Whithorn (redirect from Saint Ninian's Chapel)
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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Machars (section Saint Ninian)
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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Vita Sancti Niniani (redirect from Life of Saint Ninian)
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 (redirect from St Ninian's Church, Brougham)
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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