Early Autumn Road Trip Drive To Parish Church Of St Fergus On Visit To Glamis Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland late Summer early Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, East on the A94 road, with Scottish music, from Perthshire, to the Parish Church of St Fergus on ancetry, history visit to Glamis in Angus region. It is reputed that a church has stood on this site since the 8th century, when St Fergus established a small ecclesiastical structure. Records show that a church has existed here since at least 1242, when David de Bernham, Bishop of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife, dedicated the church at Glamis and granted it to Arbroath Abbey. The earlier church, being " old and in very bad condition ", was demolished in 1790 and two years later the present church was opened. Built in a mixture of Gothic and Romanesque, the church is rectangular in plan, with a large square tower and spire centrally placed attached to the west gable.

Saint Fergus Cruithneach died about 730, he is known in the Irish martyrologies as St. Fergus Cruithneach, or the Pict. The Breviary of Aberdeen states that he had been a bishop for many years in Ireland when he came on a mission to Alba with some chosen priests and other clerics. He settled first near Strageath, in the present parish of Upper Strathearn, in Upper Perthshire, erected three churches in that district. The churches of Strageath, Blackford, and Dolpatrick are found there today dedicated to St. Patrick. He next evangelized Caithness and established there the churches of Wick and Halkirk. Thence he crossed to Buchan in Aberdeenshire and founded a church at Lungley, a village now called St. Fergus. Lastly, he established a church at Glamis in Forfarshire. He went to Rome in 721 and was present with Sedulius and twenty other bishops at a synod in the basilica of St. Peter, convened by Pope Gregory II. His remains were deposited in the church of Glamis and were the object of much veneration in the Middle Ages. The Abbot of Scone transferred his head to Scone church, and encased it in a costly shrine there is an entry in the accounts of the treasurer of King James IV, October, 1503, "An offerand of 13 shillings to Sanct Fergus' heide in Scone". The churches of Wick, Glamis, and Lungley had St. Fergus as their patron. His festival is recorded in the Martyrology of Tallaght for the 8th of September but seems to have been observed in Scotland on the 18th of November.

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