Ninian Mtakatifu

Mt. Ninian kama mbombezi ("Ora pro nobis, Sancte Niniane").

Ninian (pia: Ringan au Trynnian; 360-432) alikuwa askofu aliyefanya umisionari kati ya Wapikti wa Uskoti wa leo.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki, Waorthodoksi na Waanglikana kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 16 Septemba.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Marejeo

• Bede (731), Giles, J. A., mhariri, The Miscellaneous Works of Venerable Bede II, London: Whittaker and Co. (ilichapishwa mnamo 1863) 
• Dowden, John (1894), "The Life of St. Ninian", The Celtic Church in Scotland, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ku. 23–32 
• Forbes, Alexander Penrose (1874), The Historians of Scotland: The Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern V, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas 
• Hardy, Thomas Duffus (1862), Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland I, London: Longman, green, Longman, and Roberts  — many references to, and comments upon, sources of information
• Healy, John (1890), Insula Sanctorum Et Doctorum (Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars) (toleo la 5th), Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker (ilichapishwa mnamo 1908) 
• Lanigan, John (1822), An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland I, Dublin 
• Mackinlay, James Murray (1904), Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-Names, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 
• Moore, Arthur William (1890), The Surnames and Place-names of the Isle of Man, London: Elliot Stock 
• Newman, John Henry; Hutton, Arthur Wollaston (1845), Lives of the English Saints: St. Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, London: James Toovey 
• Scott, Archibald Black (July 1905), "Nynia in Northern Pictland", The Scottish Historical Review (Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, ilichapishwa mnamo 1905) II (8): 378–388 
• Skene, William Forbes (1887), Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban II (toleo la 2nd), Edinburgh: David Douglas 
• Ussher, James (1639), "Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates", The Whole Works of the Most Reverend James Ussher, D. D. VI, Dublin 

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