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... later date - of any dedication to St Ninian in Fife , is strong negative evidence that its natives were not amongst the southern Picts , whom the British apostle of Galloway converted in the beginning of the fifth century . The isolated ...
... later date - of any dedication to St Ninian in Fife , is strong negative evidence that its natives were not amongst the southern Picts , whom the British apostle of Galloway converted in the beginning of the fifth century . The isolated ...
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... later . So this legend , in which Palladius is perhaps confused with St Patrick , who converted the Scots of Ireland , must be dismissed . In another story , Serf was the adoptive father of Kentigern , the contempo- rary of Columba ...
... later . So this legend , in which Palladius is perhaps confused with St Patrick , who converted the Scots of Ireland , must be dismissed . In another story , Serf was the adoptive father of Kentigern , the contempo- rary of Columba ...
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... later foundation in his honour . He preaches at Tillybothy , now Tullibody , and at Tillicoultry , at Alva — where a well still bears his name -and at Airthrie . He cannot have built the narrow bridge over the Devon which leads to the ...
... later foundation in his honour . He preaches at Tillybothy , now Tullibody , and at Tillicoultry , at Alva — where a well still bears his name -and at Airthrie . He cannot have built the narrow bridge over the Devon which leads to the ...
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... later introduction in a foundation which was originally appa- rently one for religious women , for the introduction of women into the Culdees ' monasteries was a corruption of their primitive rule . The Culdees did not belong to the ...
... later introduction in a foundation which was originally appa- rently one for religious women , for the introduction of women into the Culdees ' monasteries was a corruption of their primitive rule . The Culdees did not belong to the ...
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... later time , when Scotland was fighting for its existence against the monarchs of Eng- land , in this manipulation of the legend . Yet there was a legend to manipulate — and a legend is not an inven- tion , but a distortion of facts ...
... later time , when Scotland was fighting for its existence against the monarchs of Eng- land , in this manipulation of the legend . Yet there was a legend to manipulate — and a legend is not an inven- tion , but a distortion of facts ...
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