St Ninian’s Day Tartan-Papal Visit 2010. Size in description.

This limited edition tartan has been specially created to mark the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Scotland on Thursday, 16 September 2010, St Ninian's Day. The Holy Father then travelled onto England where he beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman on Sunday, 19th September. The design has been created by Matthew Newsome, Director of the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina. He explains his design as follows; "The white line on blue field draws upon Scotland's national colours while the greens reflect the lichens growing on the stones of Whithorn in Galloway. It was there that Ninian first brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to Scottish shores over 1600 years ago. The white lines are also accompanied by a pair of red lines reflecting the colours of Cardinal Newman's crest. And finally, the thin yellow lines in the tartan, together with the white, reflec the colours of the Vatican. "In terms of weaving, each whe line on the green contains exac eight threads, one for each Cathu ic diocese in Scotland. There then 452 threads in the design from pivot to pivot, representing t number of Catholic parishes" Registered Design No.4017046 www.inglesbuchan.com www.tartansauthority.com