Tour Scotland Video Saint Drostan Window St Michael and All Saints Church Tollcross Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Saint Drostan stained glass window in St Michael and All Saints Church on ancestry history visit and trip to Tollcross, Edinburgh. Drostan was one of the twelve companions who sailed from Ireland to Scotland around 563 with St Columba. These twelve became known as the Brethren of St Columba. He accompanied that saint when he visited Aberdour in Buchan, about 45 miles from Aberdeen. When St Drostan died at Glen Esk his remains were conveyed back to Aberdour where they were deposited in a tumba lapidea or stone coffin. Here his bones were said to work miraculous cures upon the sick and afflicted. The Breviary of Aberdeen celebrates his feast on 15th December. The monastery of Old Deer, which had fallen into decay, was rebuilt for Cistercian monks in 1213 and so continued until the Reformation.

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