Qualla: Candida Casa https://qualla.com/candida-casa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Candida Casa https://qualla.com/candida-casa Candida Casa: Introduction https://qualla.com/candida-casa/ Candida Casa means White House. The Latin gives away two things at once: the church was built when Latin was still the working language of British Christianity, and someone took the trouble to paint or whitewash the stone so that it gleamed against the green Galloway landscape. The other word in the original name was tegoria - a hut, a simple dwelling. So the White House of Whithorn began as a small whitewashed building, sometime in the late 4th century, and from that small whitewashed building Christianity spread across what is now Scotland. It is not the most photogenic ruin in the country. It is among the most important.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/candida-casa-wp/gcsz-candida-casa-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Candida Casa: Earlier Than Iona by 150 Years https://qualla.com/candida-casa/ Most Scots learn at school that Christianity arrived on Iona with St Columba in 563 AD. The truth, which historians have long known and the rest of us are still catching up on, is more complicated. Whithorn precedes Iona by 150 years as a birthplace of Scottish Christianity. In 3...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/candida-casa-wp/gcsz-candida-casa-four-languages-four-crowns.mp3 0:06 5 full Candida Casa: What Remains, What Doesn't https://qualla.com/candida-casa/ The Reformation closed the priory, as it closed every monastic institution in Scotland. The buildings fell into disrepair through the 16th and 17th centuries and beyond, and what was once a cathedral became a ruin in a country field. Today the site is managed by Historic Environm...

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