Tour Scotland Travel Video The Abraham Gravestone Cemetery Lundie Angus

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of the Abraham gravestone in the kirkyard cemetery on ancestry visit to Lundie, Angus, Scotland. A unique 18th Century headstone which carries the story from Genesis Chapter 22, which is about Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his only son Isaac. On the gravestone you can see Abraham raising a knife above his son's body lying on the altar. The inscription round the top edge carries the words:

'' And Abraham stretched forth his hand, took the knife to slay his only son. He looked and behold behind him a ram was caught in a thicket ".

The headstone was erected by Donald Ritchie in memory of John Ritchie.

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