Pilgrimage Reflection – Whithorn Peninsula
Whithorn Peninsula – Cradle of Scottish Christianity
Our first imaginative pilgrimage reflection takes us to the Whithorn Peninsula in southwest Scotland on the Solway Firth. The town is associated with St Ninian (360-432), he has been referred to as the Apostle to the Southern Picts.
There is no vast cathedral towering over the landscape, yet this site was described as ‘Scotland’s ‘cradle of Christianity’, founded in AD 397, . . . it was the centre of Christian worship for more than 1,000 years until the Reformation. By the late 1500’s the Priory was in ruins. All that is left is the simple roofless stone structure of Whithorn Priory and St. Ninian’s Chapel on the Isle of Whithorn.
