Tour Scotland 4K early Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, St Rule's Tower on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Cathedral in St Andrews, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Built in the early 12th century, it predates the vast cathedral ruins beside it by roughly a century and serves as an important monument of early Romanesque architecture. According to religious legend, a 4th century Greek monk named St Rule, also known as Saint Regulus, was warned by an angel that Roman Emperor Constantine intended to move the sacred relics of St Andrew the Apostle from Patras to Constantinople. The angel instructed Rule to take a portion of the bones, including three fingers, an arm bone, a tooth, and a kneecap, and sail away, burying them at the end of the earth. Rule was shipwrecked further up the coast of Scotland at a place then known as Kirrymont, which was subsequently renamed St Andrews. The tower and its original adjoining church were constructed around 1123 to 1130 by a community of Celtic monks known as the Culdees. Standing immensely tall for its era, the tower was specifically designed as a monumental beacon. Its soaring height allowed it to be seen from miles away across both land and sea, guiding thousands of mediaeval pilgrims coming to venerate the shrine of St Andrew. 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. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30
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