In the time of Saint Ninian, people travelled by sea, if at all possible. Roads were few and rough, and there was the frequent incidence...

In time, Saint Ninian would have gathered around him a community of missionary monks. They would have imitated what Saint Ninian had...

On his way home from Rome, St Ninian stopped for a while with St. Martin at Tours in Western France, as many did, for he was a success...

Are you going to Whithorn on Sunday to honour Saint Ninian? Mass is on the beach at 4.00pm or in the town at 4.45pm. Saint Ninian of...

Bishop Geddes died on 11 February 1799, at the age of sixty-three. The last five years he was not able to celebrate Mass because of...

He returned to Scotland in 1781 after eleven years in Spain. He was now 45 years old. He had been consecrated bishop in Spain to come...

After five years at Scalan, he moved to Preshome, near Buckie, a missionary post, but also an administrative centre for the Church, one...

After three years Geddes was appointed rector of Scalan, the seminary hidden in the Braes of Glenlivet, founded in 1716, also forbidden...

In 1759 he was ordained a priest, and returned to Scotland, with George Hay and William Guthrie. The winds in the Firth of Forth forced...

His father died in 1747. At the age of fourteen, he set out from Peterhead for Rome, by sea, a journey of four months, accompanied by...