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Church of St. Ninian
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St. Ninian's is a church in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques near Redwall Abbey. In the book Redwall it is inhabited by the hordes of Cluny the Scourge and is later destroyed in the book The Pearls of Lutra.
The Church was planned by a mouse named Ninian, who planned to use it for parties and feasts, but he was famous for his laziness and in the end his wife did all the real work. When she had finished the building, the wife nailed a sign to the door that read 'THIS AIN'T NINIAN'S'. However ill weather caused some damage to the sign, causing it to look like it said 'SAINT NINIAN'S'. The name stuck and stayed that way until the Redwallers burned it down. The Church was also the birthplace of Luke the Warrior, and his home until his tribe was driven out by Verdauga Greeneyes.
The Church was a home to several families of mice over the years, including the line of Gonff the Mousethief and the Churchmouse family. However, it was always abandoned after some period of time. It was later burned on the orders of the Redwall Recorder, Rollo, after the tragic death of a young Redwaller. Rollo ordered it because the church had become a den of evil in recent times, housing not only the hordes of Cluny, but also the slave band of Slagar and the most modern residents, a band of thieving jackdaws.