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, […]
With Midsummer’s Day and the Midsummer blog hop on us, it seems a particularly good day to tell the story of St. Bee’s. St. Bee’s is actually a church in northern England, but it was visited by James Douglas and his raiders in the years following Bannockburn, in the course of trying to force Edward […]
Don’t forget to scroll to the bottom for information about Easter Bloghop and another chance to win a $10 gift card to amazon.com. Congratulations to our previous winner, Ericka! We think of carols in association with Christmas, but in times long gone, carols were also sung at Easter. A carol, by it simplest definition, is a song […]
It was not Adam Newton’s day. He must have wondered, when he heard that he would be the next messenger to Robert the Bruce, what he had done to anger the clerics above him. The previous messengers, sent by the cardinals Luke and Jocelin, probably in early September 1317, had been pleasantly but firmly sent […]
A friend of mine once said she loved her Catholic faith because ‘it has all the cool stuff.’ She was talking about the many mystical and miraculous events throughout Catholic history and the lives of the Saints. St. Columba, 521-597, definitely falls into the category of mystical and miraculous. His life story contains at least a […]