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St Ninian was celebrated in a big way here in Scotland yesterday, as we were
visited by Pope Benedict XVI. All the schools dedicated to him sent
representatives to Edinburgh and thousands (the media are saying 70 K, but
those of us who attended reckoned it was more like 100) attended an open air
Mass in Glasgow. As we raised our parish banner, and momentarily lost one
of the children belonging to our party, I realised, for the first time, how
very useful standards must have been when thousands were gathered for battle
(or other reasons) without the aid of mobile phones to find each other.
Rosemary Hayes
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From: "John Dillon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:31 AM
Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 16. September (part 2)
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Today (16. September) is also the feast day of:
>
> 5) Ninian (d. 5th or 6th cent., supposedly). N. is the legendary founder
> of the church called, in Latin, Candida Casa ('Gleaming-White House') in
> the Isle of Whithorn in today's Dumfries and Galloway, where from the late
> seventh or early eighth century until ca. 803 there was a bishopric that
> in the twelfth century was re-erected as a suffragan of York. N. is also
> the legendary apostle of the Picts. Nothing verifiable is known about
> him; even the century of his floruit is controversial. Early sources for
> traditions about N. of uncertain age and accuracy are the verse _Miracula
> Nynie episcopi_ and Bede's _Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum_, both
> of the eighth century (as is also the _Hymnus Nynie episcopi_). Much
> later is N.'s Vita by the twelfth-century Aelred of Rievaulx (BHL
> 6239-6240).
>
> N.'s cult at his tomb at Candida Casa is attested from the eighth century
> onward; medievally, his feast was kept in Scotland and in the northern
> English dioceses of Hexham and Lancaster. Views of a restored
> fourteenth-century structure in the Isle of Whithorn called St Ninian's
> Chapel are here:
> http://tinyurl.com/33bw6dq
> http://tinyurl.com/345mqmc
> And here's a distance view of the entrance to what is said to have been St
> Ninian's Cave (also in Whithorn):
> http://www.whithorn.com/history-local-sites.asp?localsiteID=8
>
> An illustrated, English-language page on the remains of Whithorn Priory:
> http://tinyurl.com/5ccvf6
> Another view of the priory church:
> http://tinyurl.com/5zgucw
> A view of the seal of Whithorn Priory (legend: CONVENTVS CANDIDE CASE):
> http://tinyurl.com/6ftucl
>
> N. as depicted in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours of French origin
> containing the Hours of St Ninian (London, BL Add. MS 39761):
> http://tinyurl.com/6zg5qa
>
> > Best,
> John Dillon
> (last year's post revised)
>
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