Ninian

Japanese: Ninian
Ninian

…The Christian missionary work in Scotland was started by Celtic missionaries such as Ninian at the end of the 4th century and Columba, who established a monastery on the island of Iona, but after the 11th century it was reorganized under the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. In the 16th century, Patrick Hamilton, who was burned at the stake for trying to introduce religious reform, and J. Knox, who inherited the will of George Wishart, brought about a reform based on Calvinism, and in 1560 the Presbyterian Church was established based on the Scottish Confession and the Book of Discipline. …

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Japanese:

…スコットランドへのキリスト教伝道は4世紀末のニニアンNinian,アイオナ島に修道院を建立したコルンバなどケルト系の宣教師によって進められたが,11世紀以降ローマ・カトリック教会の影響下に再編された。16世紀に入ると,宗教改革を導入しようとして火刑に処せられたハミルトンPatrick Hamilton,ウィシャートGeorge Wishartの遺志を継いだJ.ノックスによってカルバン主義に基づく改革が実現し,1560年〈スコットランド信仰告白〉と〈規律の書〉による長老主義教会が確立した。…

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