Did you know..

 that St. Ninian established the first missionary convent in Scotland at Whithorn in Galloway in the 4th Century?

 that St. Patrick was born in Dumbarton, Scotland in 389 A.D.?

 that the best known of the Scottish missionary-Saints was St. Columba, a native of Ireland, who established a convent on the Island of Iona in the 6th Century A.D.?

 that The Book of Kells, a copy of the four Gospels, beautifully hand lettered and intricately illuminated by St. Columba himself, or his artist calligrapher monks in the 6th Century on Iona, is still in existence, well preserved and on display in the Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland?

 that, in addition to his missionary-monk activities of training missionaries, winning converts to Christianity, and establishing Christian Churches throughout Scotland, St. Columba was very wise and active in the conservation of Iona's natural resources? He developed an orchard of fruit trees, encouraged bee-keeping, was judicious in utilizing the island trees, and contrived a dam in the near-by lake so that the water could be channelled to turn the monastery mill-wheel, and also to drain the bog.

 that according to tradition and an ancient history of St. Columba, it was on a trip across Scotland (circa 565 A.D.) that he converted Brude, King of the Picts, near where is now the city of Inverness? Approaching King Brude's walled, wooden palace, he was refused entrance, but the gates opened of themselves when he made the sign of the Cross. King Brude then gave him audience, accepted Christianity, and bade Columba continue his mission throughout Brude's kingdom.

 that, although the later Catholic missionaries to Scotland were trained in, and sent out from Rome, the earlier Celtic missionaries had been trained in, and sent out from Asia Minor, perhaps by the Apostles themselves? This accounts for the differences between the pageantry of the Roman form of worship and the simplicity of the Celtic form.

 that the Celtic Church was the far, forerunner of Presbyterianism in Scotland from about 397 to 1153, when, after a few years of slow change, the Roman Church completely supplanted the Celtic Church?

 that the Culdees, an inner group of the Celtic Church, was the earliest organization in Scotland known to employ the Presbyterian form of government in its Christian Life and Works?

 that Regulus, a 4th Century monk of Achaia, is said to have brought the relics of St. Andrew the Martyr to Scotland? Warned by God that the Emperor Constantine intended to move the relics from Patrae to Constantinople, Regulus secured a portion of them, and fleeing by ship through stormy seas, he vowed to build a church wherever he found safe harbor. On a promontory near the present site of St. Andrews, he built the Church of the Culdees and the massive stone ediface still called the "Tower of St. Rule (Regulus)
 

 that Queen Margaret, wife of King Malcolm Canmore, is given full credit for bringing Roman Catholicism to Scotland and abolishing the Celtic Church? Margaret was the sister of King Edgar Atheling of Britain (England), who had been dispossessed of his throne by William the Conqueror in 1066. Seeking refuge in Scotland, Margaret found the love of King Malcolm, the son of King Duncan who had been slain by MacBeth.

that St. Margaret's Chapel, the private oratory of the 11th Century Queen Margaret, in Edinburgh Castle is believed to be the oldest Religious ediface in Scotland, about 900 years old, and is only sixteen feet, six inches long by ten feet, six inches wide, seating twenty-five persons? It had been converted into the Castle's Powder Magazine after the 16th Century Reformation, and its true significance lost sight of until a member  of the Antiquarian Society, Sir Daniel Wilson, recognized its ecclesiastical architecture during the 19th Century and urged its restoration.

 that Dunfermline Abbey was commissioned by Queen Margaret, and that it is here that she is interred with her King and husband, Malcolm Canmore, and six other ancient Scottish Kings, including Robert the Bruce?

 that after four centuries of suppression by the Roman Church, the simplicity of the Celtic Church was revived again in the Presbyterianism of the Scottish Reformation under John Knox in 1560?

 that during the Scottish Reformation, Protestants and Catholics alike were guilty of vandalizing one another's churches, and martyring one another's ministers, priests, and converts?

 that James Resby, an English "Lollard" and follower of Protestant Reformer John Wycliffe, who went into Scotland to proclaim the new doctrines, was the first person to be condemned to death in Scotland for heresy? He was sentenced to he burned at the stake in Perth in 1407.

 that Patrick Hamilton, for preaching Luther's doctrine, was the first Scotsman to be martyred for the Reformation? He was burned at the stake at St. Andrew's in 1528, during the reign of King James V.

 that Father Francis of Aberdeen, a member of the Trinitarian Order, is said to have been the first Roman Catholic martyr of the Scottish Reformation?

 that James Renwick, at the age of 26, in 1688, was the last Covenanter to be officially executed for his religious beliefs during the Reformation?

 that a mass execution of the dogs of Aberdeen occurred in the 17th Century when, as Royalists (R.C.) and Covenanters had chosen distinguishing "party colors"-red for the Cavaliers; blue for the Covenanters the lasses of Aberdeen in mockery adorned every dog they could find with blue ribbons? The Covenanters, marching through the town with the barking and yelping blue beribboned dogs at their heels found this form of ridicule intolerable, so ordered every dog destroyed.
 

 that on November 24, 1784, the first Bishop to the Episcopal Church in America was ordained in Aberdeen? The Bishopric of Samuel Seabury was to be in Connecticut, and it was also at this time that the Scottish Church recommended that the American Church adopt the Scottish rather than the English form of the Communion Office.

 that the Kirk of St. Giles in Edinburgh was the scene of a riot in 1637, when, in complying with King Charles I's mandate to unite all his people in one form of worship, Dean James Hanna attempted to read the Episcopal liturgy to his Presbyterian congregation? The action started when an old woman, Jenny Geddes, rose up shouting indignantly, "Durst thou say thy Mass at my lug (ear) ?" and flung her stool at the