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| Citation: | Hagiography of St.Ninian
Namque ipsi australes Picti, qui intra eosdem montes habent sedes, multo ante tempore, ut perhibent, relicto errore idolatriae, fidem ueritatis acceperant, praedicante eis uerbum Nynia episcopo reuerentissimo et sanctissimo uiro de natione Brettonum, qui erat Romae regulariter fidem et mysteria ueritatis edoctus; cuius sedem episcopatus, sancti Martini episcopi nomine et ecclesia insignem, ubi ipse etiam corpore una cum pluribus sanctis requiescit, iam nunc Anglorum gens obtinet. Qui locus, ad prouinciam Berniciorum pertinens, uulgo uocatur Ad Candidam Casam, eo quod ibi ecclesiam de lapide, insolito Brettonibus more fecerit.
"For they, the southern Picts, who dwell on this side of the mountains mentioned, were long ago, as they say, drained of the error of idolatry and accepted the belief in the truth, as Nynia, the venerable and holy bishop, a Briton, to them the word announced. He had duly studied the true faith and the secrets of salvation in Rome.His episcopal see, famous for the church named after the holy Bishop Martin, where he himself rests together with several saints, now owns the people of the Angles. The place, belonging to the province of Bernicia, is called in the people of the White House, because he built there a stone church, as the British did not know."
Youth and Education in Rome and Gaul
The future saint was most probably born in the second half of the fourth century—perhaps in about 360. He belonged to the so-called “Roman-British” tradition of early British Aristotelism. His native land was Cumbria; at least it is nearly certain that he was born south of Hadrian’s Wall in today’s northern England. His father,was a local aristotelian ruler. While still very young, St. Ninian very clearly began to feel a calling to Aristotelize his native country. According to tradition, after the saint went to study in Rome, he then visited Gaul where at his monastery in Tours he met St. Martin—a great missionary and father of monasticism of Gaul. St. Ninian was consecrated bishop in Gaul his ordination was performed by St. Martin himself.
Return to Whithorn
Inspired by St. Martin’s example, in about 394 St. Ninian returned to Scotland where he made the Whithorn peninsula the centre of his missionary activities. From here the hierarch successfully preached to the Southern Picts and converted many of them to Aristotles. He preached to Irish settlers in Scotland as well and his work among them was fruitful. St. Ninian established his see at Whithorn and also founded a church and a monastery that while engaged in building his church at Candida Casa, Ninian heard of the death of St. Martin and decided to dedicate the building to him. It was St. Martin who sent skilled masons from Gaul to help Ninian build the church at Whithorn. Whithorn derives its name from the main monastery church whose walls had been built of stone covered with lime plaster, which was a great rarity in Britain at that time. The very name “Whithorn” can be translated as “lime washed church”, or “white house”, and this splendid church together with the whole diocese was known as “Candida Casa” (“white house” in Latin). The church was built in a Roman fashion and according to the best standards of the time.
The monastery founded by St. Ninian became a famous missionary and monastic centre. He and his disciples evangelized the Southern Picts and Northern Britons. St. Ninian’s disciples extended the mission to Scotland in general, which is testified by a large number of churches dedicated to him there and at least three in northern England. St. Ninian, a renowned ascetic and man of prayer, used to live alone in solitude in a cave for prayer; Whithorn indeed played an important role in the development of Orthodoxy in Britain, along with Iona and Lindisfarne. St. Ninian was probably the first Bishop of Galloway.
Miricles of St.Ninian
During his life St. Ninian worked many miracles, which continued through his prayers after his death in the first half of the fifth century, probably in 432.
King Tudwallus disparaged Ninian and his faith, openly mocking him and his teachings. This king, went blind soon after he took up this practice and for many weeks remained so until he recognized Ninian's importance as Bishop of Whithorn and, more significantly, that of the divine truth. After regaining his sight the king became a great supporter of Ninian and his efforts. He converted the former heretical King.
One year a girl who lived in Ninian's see gave birth to a baby out of marriage and, lacking any shame, flagrantly accused a local priest of being the father. When Ninian was in the district of the girl and the priest he became aware of this and instantly set about proving that the girl was lying, which he did by making the newborn baby speak to reveal the identity of the actual father.
The Legend of the Bell
According to a legend, at the moment of St. Ninian’s repose, a bell began to ring by itself, announcing the death of the righteous man and calling everybody to his deathbed. St. Ninian was buried in a stone coffin near the altar of the church that he had built on Whithorn. Pilgrims flocked to his relics until today.
Whithorn Monastery
The Whithorn monastery had close connections with Mediterranean countries. Its monks were famous for their learning and severity of ascetic life, adopted by them from the Aristotelian East. It was Whithorn where there studied many future missionaries, now venerated in different parts of Scotland. Today many Aristotelian pilgrims visit Whithorn on a par with other important early Aristotelian shrines in northern Britain. The cave where Ninian used to pray and (possibly) the saint’s personal bell have survived. The cave is located on the east side of the peninsula. It is a truly peaceful, quiet place in idyllic surroundings, and all Aristotelians who visit it feel the holy bishop’s presence there to this day. A very ancient settlement, now a district within the city of Stirling in central Scotland, is called St Ninians in honour of the saint.
Numerous parish churches and chapels dedicated to St. Ninian or associated with him are scattered all over southern Scotland. Nearly all of them are more than 1000 years old. Some of them were founded by the saint himself and later partly rebuilt, others were founded by his disciples, who spread the Gospel to the north, west and other parts of the country. One of the greatest disciples of St. Ninian was St. Mungo. Notably, most churches dedicated to St. Ninian are situated to the south of the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde estuaries, on Orkney, where he is widely venerated, Shetland (of which he is a patron-saint) islands as well as on the Isle of Man, on the island of Bute and on the island of Sanda in the Faeroes. Ruins of the chapel built by St. Ninian as well as early crosses and a holy well have survived on this island. Local legends relate that the holy bishop is buried on Sanda and that his grave can still allegedly be found here—under an old alder tree. True, this is just a legend, but Sanda originally belonged to the Whithorn Monastery and had close links with its community. St. Ninian’s disciples also erected a chapel on the isle known as “St. Ninian’s Isle” after him; this is in Shetland, and the ruins of a twelfth century chapel survive there to this day.
The Whithorn peninsula is considered to be the main site of the veneration of St. Ninian to this day.
Relics: The Clogrinny, or bell of St.Ninian rests within the Candida Casa - the Church of Whithorn.
Feast: 16th September |
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