Tour Scotland photograph of the St Columba stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel in
Edinburgh Castle,
Edinburgh,
Scotland. In 563
St Columba travelled to Scotland with twelve companions, where according to legend he first landed on the Kintyre Peninsula, near Southend. However, being still in sight of his native land he moved further north up the west coast of Scotland. In 563 he was granted land on the island of
Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.
Tour Scotland photograph of the St Margaret stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel in
Edinburgh Castle,
Edinburgh,
Scotland. Saint Margaret of Scotland, born 1045, died 16th November 1093, also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming his queen consort. She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to
Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names.
Tour Scotland photograph of the St Ninian stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel in
Edinburgh Castle,
Edinburgh,
Scotland. Saint Ninian from the 4th and 5th century, is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the
Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland. For this reason he is known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, and there are numerous dedications to him in those parts of Scotland with a Pictish heritage, throughout the Scottish Lowlands,
Tour Scotland photograph of the William Wallace stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel in
Edinburgh Castle,
Edinburgh,
Scotland.
William Wallace entered into the history books during a fairly calm and affluent period of time period in Scottish history.
Tour Scotland photograph of the St Andrew stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel in
Edinburgh Castle,
Edinburgh,
Scotland. About the middle of the 10th century, Andrew became the patron saint of Scotland. Several legends state that the relics of Andrew were brought by divine guidance from Constantinople to the place where the modern town of
St Andrews stands today.
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