Editing Ninian (section)

===Bede ({{circa|731}})===
[[Image:The Venerable Bede translates John 1902.jpg|thumb|''[[Bede|The Venerable Bede]] translates John'', by [[James Doyle Penrose|J. D. Penrose]], c. 1902.]]

[[Bede]] says that Ninian (whose name he only renders in the ablative case ''Nynia'') was a [[Britons (historical)|Briton]] who had been instructed in [[Rome]]; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons; that his [[episcopal see]] was named after [[Martin of Tours|Saint Martin of Tours]]; that he preached to and converted the southern [[Picts]]; that his base was called ''Ad Candidam Casam'', which was in the province of the [[Bernicia]]ns; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.<ref>{{Harvcolnb|Bede|731|pp=271, 273}} Book III Chapter IV, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=azApAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA271 When the nation of the Picts received the faith]''</ref>

[[Image:Saint.Aelred.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Saint Ailred (or Aelred), from an 1845 book.<ref>{{Harvcolnb|Forbes|1874|p=frontispiece}} ''The Historians of Scotland: The Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern''</ref>]]