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Dunfermline Abbey Diary
1969-1990
Dunfermline Abbey Diary
1969-1990
Stewart M. Macpherson
ISBN 0-9554273-0-4
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About the book
Around 800 AD a Culdee (Celtic) community built the first Christian Church at Dunfermline. When, in 1070, Princess Margaret of Hungary, later known as St Margaret of Scotland, married King Malcolm Canmore in Dunfermline she introduced Roman forms of worship and church government and invited Benedictines from Canterbury to build a Priory Church. Following the Reformation the Abbey alternated between Episcopacy and Presbyterianism, finally becoming a parish church within the established Church of Scotland.
During twenty-one years as Minister of Dunfermline Abbey, the Rev Stewart M. Macpherson’s day-to-day commitments and experiences were inevitably very varied. Because of its historic and ecclesiastic importance the Abbey attracted royalty, world famous choirs, musicians and celebrities. There were many challenges: in 1983 dry rot made restoration work on the Abbey imperative and the church hall was gutted by fire in 1987.
It is easy for time to wipe away the past: Stewart Macpherson’s diary will enable many who were involved during his ministry to remember and reflect. For those too young to remember, it provides a glimpse into the past.