Ninian of Whithorn
Approx. 360 AD — Approx. 432 AD · Feast day: September 16
Ninian was a Briton who, according to tradition, studied in Rome, was consecrated bishop, and returned to establish a religious center at Whithorn in Galloway around the late 4th or early 5th century. There he built the Candida Casa — the White House — dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, Scotland's earliest recorded stone church. From Whithorn he carried Christianity north to the Southern Picts, earning the title 'Apostle to the Southern Picts.' Much of his life is reconstructed from medieval sources written centuries after his death.