|
|
Celtic Saints of Southern Scotland
offered by supplier M15425 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 8
day(s)
Group Size: 10
- 20
people
Destination(s):
Scotland
Specialty Categories:
Pilgrimage/Spirituality
Season: June
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 1100 Pound Sterling (GBP)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1800 Pound Sterling (GBP)
|
|
Please note the fixed dates of this Tour from 12th-19th/20th July 2008.Subject to minimum numbers.Tours at any other dates will be at a supplement.
This 7/8 day tour of sacred Christian sites is led and guided by Jackie Queally who has led tours of early Christian and prehistoric sites since 1999. She is the original tour guide to Rosslyn Chapel and has written four booklets and two guides on this and other historic and sacred aspects of Scottish sites.
She has also produced audio files on the ley lines of Scotland, having studied them for many years with experts in that field. Her collaborator and dear friend Ivor is an experienced tour guide in Scotland who organizies the logistical and travel matters for the tours.
This combination ensures an exhilarating and not to be forgotten experience. It is the spiritual and magical quality of the
sites that will leave you with lasting impressions. The historic and "energetic" elements of the sites are explained to you personally.
There a number of significant ley lines you can dowse with pendulums of rods made available to you if you wish to connect at that level. This tour covers many sites that are complimentary to Rosslyn and Jackie can explain why this is so. The sites often stimulate and refresh people in a very deep manner.
Your Itinerary
Day 1: Evening meal in hotel followed by orientation led by Jackie Queally and Ivor.
Day 2: Journey via Tweedale to Southwest Scotland. Visit St Mungo’s Church and local sites in a remote Tweed valley connected with the legendary Merlin who Mungo converted to Christianity according to Mungo’s biographer Jocelyn in the 13th century!
His legend is full of stories of his amazing powers of healing, divining and miracles. Reach our destination close to the earliest Christian crosses in Scotland, the Kirkmadrine Stones on the Rhins of Galloway. Hotel based near Portpatrick.
Day 3: The Whithorn area. Spend day exploring the legacy of St Ninian who at the turn of the fourth/ fifth century was the first missionary in Scotland, sending many of his itinerant monks over the short sea crossing here to Ireland.
St Patrick was the most famous of these monks. Visit Ninian’s Cave with early Christian engravings on its walls, the ruins of his early church cell on Whithorn peninsula, the museum of early stones in Whithorn, and St Modwenna’s valley. Hotel based near Portpatrick.
Day 4: Glasgow. St. Mungo founded Glasgow in the early sixth century so we visit the award- winning Museum of Religion close by St Mungo’s Cathedral that features St Mungo’s Tomb. The City Chambers has a magnificent series of wall paintings depicted Mungo’s life, and there are other sites near the centre of Glasgow with religious relics worth visiting if time permits. Hotel in Fife.
Day 5: Culross and Dunning. Morning talk on the Culdees in Scotland led by Jackie. Visit to Culross that was a Culdee settlement from at least the fifth century onwards. St Mungo was born there in the most extraordinary circumstances, and the village is truly enchanting today.
We visit the ruins of a parish church with Templar stones in its walls, and walk on an old country byway to St Serf’s Abbey that was built in 1217 but dates back to the time of St Serf who trained Mungo as a priest.
The local area has many early Culdee settlements and in the Ochill Hills the church of Dunning was home to St Serf 462- 532 circa who trained Mungo for his mission. St Serf allegedly dispelled a dragon in Dunning that was terrorising the local inhabitants. The church at Dunning displays a wonderful cross that as borrowed for display in the entrance to the Early Carvings section of the new wing of the Museum of Scotland when it opened. Hotel in Fife.
Day 6: Abernethy and St Andrews. Abernethy was once the capital of the Southern Picts in Scotland, and the village had a Culdee monastery and settlement. The church site dates from 423 and there is an intact Irish round tower in its graveyard. Leaving Aberbenethy after lunch in the Culdees tearoom we travel along the ancient Tay to St Andrews, past early monastic settlements.
St Andrews had their own Culdee church of St Mary Magdalene in the early centuries in the harbor area behind the present day cathedral, and many stones are on display in the museum there. The tower of St Rules alias St Regulus can still be climbed, and St Modwenna (see Day 2)/ Triduana traveled with Rule across Pictland at the time. Hotel in Fife.
Day 7: Edinburgh and surrounds. The only pre- Reformation building to remain in Edinburgh is a well house in which St Triduana performed healing miracles, especially for eye complaints- the local Protestant congregation recently held a service in St Triduana’s Wellhouse on St Triduana’s Day where they gave out the water freely to folk to partake of!
The service was attended by the local Catholic Church and many non church goers. It is an interesting hexagonal collegiate chapel built in the Italianate style in the fifteenth century to house her well.
We also visit a serene church on Hopetoun Estate that holds many ancient Christian stones as this site dates back to the seventh century when Trunwin a Pictish bishop based his mission here- he ironically had to flee to his mother church at Lindisfarne when the Picts invaded!
Lunch in South Queensferry - before returning to Edinburgh or continuing on to Melrose and Lindisfarne. For those who continue, visit Dryburgh Abbey and look down on Old Melrose en route to hotel. Hotels in either Edinburgh or Dryburgh Hotel in the Borders.
Day 8: Visit Lindisfarne (if tidal times permit visit Melrose Abbey that morning). Hotel in Edinburgh.
Member discount:
10% discount for InfoHub customer. Request a free gift certificate.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price includes:
- accommodation (sharing in double or twin rooms with Half Board)
Supplement for single room occupation. Smaller groups can be taken at greater cost - apply for quote. Fixed tour 12th-19th July 2008.
Also see tour packages in:
Europe
Scotland
Pilgrimage/Spirituality
Email it to a friend:
Click here to email this vacation to a friend
|
|
|
|
