Published Date:
14 March 2006
By PAUL RIDDELL
I STOOD in John Knox's pulpit in front of a silent (and empty) St Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews, last Friday. According to legend, it was from this suitably austere wooden structure, albeit then in nearby Holy Trinity Church, that the great puritan and "animating spirit" of the Reformation, as Allan Massie has described him, incited crowds to ransack the town's cathedral in 1559.
In the end, unlike the Borders abbeys which were destroyed, St Andrews Cathedral eventually fell down due to neglect, my superb "tour guide", John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at St Andrews University, was able to point out.
On my way home in...
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Last Updated:
13 March 2006 10:00 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
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