Category: Methven

More on St. Fillan and the Bruce

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We started the story… …of Inchaffray Abbey, and Bruce’s endowment to it in PART ONE, I talked about Bruce’s decision to give an endowment for a chapel to St. Fillan and a brief history of the early, awful months of 1306. In PART TWO, I got into the detail of the Battle of Dalrigh, which, […]

Category:Architechture, Dalrigh, Faith, Fillan, Great Figures of Medieval Scotland, MacDougall, MacNab, Methven, Religion, Robert Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Saints, St. Fillan's Church/Strath Fillan Priory
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Part Two: St. Fillan and the Bruce

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So now we’ve laid some of the ground work, the background to Bruce’s Heavenly Help.  Bruce is at perhaps the lowest point of his life, not merely personally, but in the outlook for his country in its stand against England. . Indeed, Bruce had few followers.  The country was torn apart, Comyn supporters against Bruce […]

Category:Edward I, Edward II, Fillan, Methven, Plantagenets, Robert the Bruce, Saints
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