ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 16th of September WELCOME! SAINT NINIAN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Saint Ninian's date of birth unknown; he died about 432. He was the first Apostle of Christianity in Scotland. BEDE'S ACCOUNT The earliest account of him is in Bede: "the southern Picts received the true faith by the preaching of Bishop Ninias, a most reverend and holy man of the British nation, who had been regularly instructed at Rome in the faith and mysteries of the truth; whose episcopal see, named after St Martin the Bishop, and famous for a church dedicated to him (wherein Ninias himself and many other saints rest in the body), is now in the possession of the English nation. The place belongs to the province of the Bernicians and is commonly called the White House [Candida Casa], because he there built a church of stone, which was not usual amongst the Britons". The facts given in this passage form practically all we know of St Ninian’s ...