Donna Brewster, author of Second Daughter and The House That Sugar Built, is a member of the Whithorn Trust. She lives near the site of Candida Casa and has traced the footprints of Galloway's Ninian throughout northern Britain, from south of Hadrian's Wall to the furthest reaches of the Shetland Islands. She has pursued his traditional story, together with those of his famed contemporaries, though France to Rome and, even further, into the Holy Land. Ninian was described as a British Prince who relinquished his royal claims and his ambitions in order to spread the Gospel of Christ. He spread the word among the enemies of Rome and his own people, and it is thought possibly right to the "ends of the world" the Ultima Thule on the Roman maps.
My Ninian is a fictional account of the traditional story of the life and work of Saint Ninian, based on all that was written about him, both in the 8th and 12th centuries, as well as on the oral traditions that persist in the many places that commemorate him.
Please contact the Whithorn Trust for further information.
My Ninian
Wild Men and Holy Places
