Old Photograph Whitekirk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Whitekirk, East Lothian, Scotland. Whitekirk is four miles from North Berwick, eight miles from Dunbar and 25 miles east of Edinburgh. The shrine of Our Lady at Whitekirk was desecrated by the armies of Edward III of England in 1356, a period that would become known as the Burnt Candlemas. Whitekirk continued to be a place of pilgrimage, however, receiving visits from the future Pope Pius II and Kings James IV and James V. The Covenanting preacher John Blackadder gave his last conventicle on the hill behind the Church in 1678. Whitekirk was on the pilgrim's route from St Andrews, Fife to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and described as a stopping point in the Iter pro peregrinis ad Compostellam., Book V of the Codex Calixtinus.

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