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Went to an organ recital there a few years ago. The player's daughter looked bored out of her mind, poor thing.
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Wow. What an amazing looking place. A great photo too with a glimpse of the far away background, telling us that this place is high up on a mountain.
It seems to have survived better than most of ours, When were your monks thrown out? Was it at the 1560 reformation, or after?
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Melrose Abbey also suffered a great deal from attacks by the English during the Wars of Independence. Most of the Abbey was ransacked and ruined in the 1300s by invading English forces sent by Richard II.
David I founded Melrose Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery in Scotland, in 1136. It was one of a number of abbeys that he set up in the Borders to show both his piety and his power over this contested territory.
The Cistercians were drawn to this fertile spot beside the River Tweed by its close associations with St Aidan and St Cuthbert. The monks came from Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, the Cistercians’ great northern English missionary base.
Monastic life continued at Melrose for the next 450 years. The last monk, John Watson, died around 1590. The crumbling abbey church was used as a parish church until a new kirk was built nearby in 1810.
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Some Then and Now that are closer together - we visited Grand Turk in 2008 - right after Hurricane Ike. And again in 2016
I might should put these two in the churches thread
Above Holy Cross 2008 on right 2016 on left Below St Thomas Anglican Church - 2008 taken through the window of a school bus on left
Another photo taken in 2008 right after Hurricane Isaac. And one taken in 2016
For some reason I thought this was a different thread
I might should put these two in the churches thread
Above Holy Cross 2008 on right 2016 on left Below St Thomas Anglican Church - 2008 taken through the window of a school bus on left
Another photo taken in 2008 right after Hurricane Isaac. And one taken in 2016
For some reason I thought this was a different thread
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