Kirkmadrine Stone
On display in the glass fronted porch of Kirkmadrine
Burial Chapel is a collection of the oldest Christian monuments
outside Whithorn, ranging from the 'Sacerdotes' stone of the late
5th century, shown here, through to Norse crosses of the 12th
century
The term 'Sacerdotes' is a latin one for 'Priest', and in the
context of this stone suggests that by the end of the 5th century
there was an organsised ecclesiastical structure to Christianity in
south-west Scotland, some 150 years before Columba's arrival at
Iona.
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