Tour Scotland 4K travel video with Scottish music, of beautiful stained glass windows in the Kirk of St Bride on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Abernethy, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The name Abernethy is an extremely potent name in Scottish history. Here was an ancient Pictish capital, and then an ecclesiastical metropolis of the Celtic Church of the Culdees. A church on this site was founded by Nechtan, King of the Picts and dedicated to St Bride of Kildare. The first stone church was built by Gartnaidh, King of the Picts around 590 AD. After the reformation in 1560 the church was in the care of the Superintendent of St Andrew’s until a minister was apointed. In 1733 the minister at Abernethy seceded with three others. The two churches united in 1951 to form the present parish church. The medieval building was demolished in 1802 prior to the construction of the present church. The church became half of the united charge of Abernethy, Dron and Arngask in 2006. St Bride, or Brigit or Brigid in Ireland, is one of Ireland's patron saints, along with Patrick and Columba. She was an early Irish Christian nun, abbess and founder of several monasteries of nuns, including that of Kildare in Ireland, which was famous and revered. Amongst many other things, she is the patron saint of scholars, travellers and mariners. The feast day of St Bride is 1 February, or Candlemas. The distinctive cross of St Bride was, according to the legend, woven from reeds or rushes by the saint so that she could convert a dying man. Read more about St Bride here. It is said that the Hebrides are named after her, hence her name Bride of the Isles. Legend has her arriving on the shores of South Uist with an oystercatcher bird, gille-Brihde, the servant of St Bride, on each wrist. West Kilbride has her arriving on the shores of Ayrshire in the 6th century, where Kilbride River meets the sea. She was allegedly buried at the Abernethy Kirk of St Bride, before being transported back to Ireland. According to myth, St Bride was locked in Ben Nevis for three months of winter, before being rescued by Aonghas of the White Steed on the first of February. St Bride is also said to have been carried by angels from Iona to Bethlehem, to be midwife to Mary, at the birth of Jesus. Another ingredient in the mix is a prehistoric settlement named Balbridie near Banchory, which has been dated to around 3600 BC, which points to an earlier Brigid. This might be the legendary Brighid, the Ancient British Goddess, to whom wells, springs and rivers may have been dedicated in pre Christian times. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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