Ninian's major shrine was at Whithorn in Galloway, where he is associated with the Candida Casa ( Latin for ' White House ').

One such bishopric was established at Whithorn in 731, and Bede's account serves to support the legitimacy of the new Northumbrian bishopric.

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

Soon after their arrival in England, they founded Dryburgh Abbey in the Borders area of Scotland, which was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory, Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in northern Britain.

Moreover, Wigtown was a conservative merchant community, and its exclusive trading privileges granted to them by James II increasingly became threatened by Whithorn.

In 1597, Wigtown was set tax at 15 shillings, Dumfries paid 36 shillings and eight pence, Whithorn, five shillings and Kirkcudbright, 18 shillings.

Precisely how old the church is remains a mystery, and although at one time it belonged to the priory of Whithorn, Wigtown parish church was afterwards set up as a free rectory with the king as patron.

In 1504 he became Prior of Whithorn and Abbot of Dunfermline and in 1505 was made Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.

It is thought that the crozier was buried with the body of Simon de Wedale, who was one of the Bishops of Whithorn.

Whithorn's link to the sea was the port known as the Isle of Whithorn ( a separate community from Whithorn itself and actually a peninsula ).

Whithorn was once served by a railway station until the Beeching axe.

It was on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Ninian at Whithorn in 1329 that Robert the Bruce forded the river where the present bridge stands.

It is said that Ninian was buried here, and indeed, the island was in possession of the Priory of Whithorn in Galloway until the Reformation.

The short-lived see at Abercorn, created in 681 for Bishop Trumwine, collapsed in the period after Ecgfrith's death and the first known Bishop of Whithorn was appointed in the reign of King Ceolwulf.

Soon after their arrival in England, they founded Dryburgh Abbey in the Borders area of Scotland, which was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory, Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in the northern part of the nation.

The original settlement was known as Killantrae, meaning ' The Church on the Beach ' in Gaelic, and was probably founded not long after St Ninian arrival in nearby Whithorn towards the end of the 4th century.

The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, was the eccesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian in the mid-5th century.

James I formalised the admission of the diocese into the Scottish church on 26 August 1430 and just as all Scottish sees, Whithorn was to be accountable directly to the pope.

During Wimund's episcopate, or shortly before its beginning, Gille Aldan was consecrated Bishop of Whithorn, probably by the agreement of Fergus of Galloway and Archbishop Thurstan, and with the approval of Pope Honorius III.

Guise first planned to sail with her daughter from Dumbarton as far as Whithorn where she would make pilgrimage, but returned instead for a council meeting in Edinburgh.

The Newton Stewart to Whithorn Branch Line Railway stopped at Wigtown Station ( the first train ran on 2 March 1875 ).

A related development was Fergus ' resurrection of the Bishopric of Whithorn, an ancient Galwegian See first established by the expansionary Northumbrians under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York.

He was a member of the Parliament of Scotland for Whithorn from 1702 to 1707, and a Commissioner for the Union of Parliaments for the Whig Party: he sat in the first Parliament of Great Britain in 1707.

Further south, at Whithorn, a Christian inscription is known from the second half of the 5th century, perhaps commemorating a new church.

The details of the early Middle Ages in northwest England and southwest Scotland are more obscure, but a Bishop of Whithorn is known from shortly after Aldfrith's reign.

The Bernician name hwit ærn is Old English for the Latin candida casa, or ' white house ' in modern English, and it has survived as the modern name of Whithorn.

* Ninian, Scottish apostle, establishes a church ( Candida Casa ) at Whithorn, and begins his missionary work among the Picts.

He apparently studied under Colman of Dromore and Mochae of Noendrum, and subsequently at Candida Casa ( Whithorn ), whence he proceeded to Rome, returning to Ireland in 540 with an integral copy of St. Jerome's Vulgate.

* " Early Medieval Ploughing at Whithorn and the Chronology of Plough Pebbles ", Hill, P. and Kucharski, K. in Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Vol.

The earliest mention of Ninian of Whithorn is in a short passage of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Northumbrian monk Bede in ca.

These are the sources of information about Ninian of Whithorn, and all provide seemingly innocuous personal details about his life.

Image: Burgh. of. Whithorn. Seal. png | Burgh of Whithorn Seal, depicting St. Ninian ( 1906 ).

The Isle of Whithorn is actually a peninsula.

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