Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of an Adam and Eve gravestone in Dryburgh Abbey on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Scottish Borders. Gravestones depicting Adam and Eve were once common throughout the Lowlands of Scotland, but over the last 300 years numbers have dwindled. Dryburgh Abbey was founded in 1152 by Premonstratensian monks, Augustinians, also known as White Canons, on a site made sacred by Saint Modan around 600. It was founded by monks from Alnwick on land owned by Hugh de Moreville, the father of one of the assassins of Saint Thomas Becket. The Abbey was burned by English troops in 1322, after which it was restored and used by King Robert I of Scotland. It was again burned in 1385, but it flourished in the fifteenth century. It was finally destroyed in 1544, briefly to survive until the Reformation, when it was given to the Earl of Mar by King James VI of Scotland. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve are the ancestors of the human race and were made by God on the sixth day as part of the original Creation. They lived in the paradise of the Garden of Eden, until they sinned by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and were expelled (Genesis 1 and 2). In Christian symbolism Adam and Eve may represent both the dignity of the human race, and the shame of sin which led to the need for redemption by Christ.
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