Tour Scotland photograph of the graveyard cemetery at Linlithgow St Michael's, Linlithgow, Scotland. Built immediately to the south of Linlithgow Palace, the church was much favoured as a place of worship by Scottish Kings and Queens. Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in Linlithgow Palace on 8 December 1542 and was baptised in St Michael’s Church. In 1559, at an early stage of the Scottish Reformation, the Protestant Lords of the Congregation destroyed the statues adorning the exterior and interior of the church as signs of " popishness ", and defaced the statue of St Michael which formed part of the structure.
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