St. Ninian Bishop of Whithorn (Nynia, Ninnidh) Apostle to the Picts, Abbot of Candida Casa (White House) Monastery, Bishop of Whithorn Bishop and confessor; date of birth unknown; died about 432; the first Apostle of Christianity in Scotland. The earliest account of him is in Bede (Hist. Eccles., III, 4):…