Tour Scotland Video Interior St Machar’s Cathedral Aberdeen

Tour Scotland video of the interior of St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. St Machar is said to have been a companion of St Columba on his journey to Iona. A fourteenth century legend tells how God, or St Columba, told Machar to establish a church where a river bends into the shape of a bishop's crosier before flowing into the sea. The River Don bends in this way just below where the Cathedral now stands. According to legend, St Machar founded a site of worship in Old Aberdeen in about 580. Machar's church was superseded by a Norman cathedral in 1131, shortly after King David I transferred the See from Mortlach to Aberdeen. Almost nothing of that original cathedral survives. After the execution of William Wallace in 1305, his body was cut up and sent to different corners of the country to warn other dissenters. His left quarter ended up in Aberdeen and is buried in the walls of the cathedral.

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