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A Abadia de Dunfermline, na Escócia. Na região do Fife do oeste, sobre uma escarpa, era originalmente um mosteiro fundado nos anos 1070 pela Rainha Santa Margarida, para os beneditinos, no sítio onde se levantava uma capela céltica. Em 1128, seu filho o rei Davi I aumentou o edifício e subiu sua categoria, transformando-o em abadia .
La Abadía de Dunfermline es una iglesia ubicada en Dunfermline, Fife, Escocia. En 2002, la congregación tenía 806 miembros. La actual abadesa es la madre reverenda MaryAnn R. Rennie desde 2012. La iglesia ocupa el lugar de la antigua capilla y la abadía medieval benedictina, que fue saqueada en 1560 durante la Reforma Escocesa y permitió ...
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Early history
The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity and St Margaret, was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland, but the monastic establishment was based on an earlier priory dating back to the reign of his father King Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, i. e. "Malcolm III" or "Malcolm Canmore" (regnat 1058–93), and his queen, St Margaret. At its head was the Abbot of Dunfermline, the first of which was Geoffrey of Canterbury, former Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent monastery that probably supp...
Later history
During the Scottish Reformation, the abbey church had undergone a first Protestant 'cleansing' by September 1559, and was sacked in March 1560. By September 1563 the choir and feretory chapel were roofless, and it was said that the nave was also in a sorry state, with the walls so extensively damaged that it was a danger to enter. Some parts of the abbey infrastructure still remain, principally the vast refectory and rooms over the gatehouse which was part of the former city wall. The nave wa...
Today
The current building on the site of the choir of the old abbey church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, still with the name Dunfermline Abbey. The minister (since 2012[update]) is the Reverend MaryAnn R. Rennie.
The old building was a fine example of simple and massive Romanesque, as the nave testifies, and has a beautiful doorway in its west front. Alexander Ihad the two towers built which flanked the great western entrance. Another rich Romanesque doorway was exposed in the south wall in 1903, when masons were cutting a site for the memorial to the soldi...
Saint Margaret of Scotland was buried here in 1093; on 19 June 1250 following her canonization her remains were disinterred and placed in a reliquary at the high altar. Her husband Malcolm III'srem...Both Alexander I of Scotland 1124, and his queen Sybilla de Normandy1122, were buried hereThis article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dunfermline". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.Blair, David Oswald Hunter (1909). "Abbey of Dunfermline" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Engraving of Dunfermline Abbey by James Fittler in the digitised copy of Scotia Depicta, or the antiquities, castles, public buildings, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, cities, towns and picturesque...Engraving of Dunfermline Abbey in 1693 by John Slezerat National Library of ScotlandHistoria. Durante la Edad Media, Dunfermline creció en torno a la abadía de Dunfermline, construcción benedictina de estilo normando fundada en el siglo XI y concluida a principios del siglo XII, en la que se encuentra enterrado Roberto I de Escocia, conocido como Robert the Bruce.
De Wikipedia, a enciclopédia livre A Abadia de Dunfermline , na Escócia . Na região do Fife do oeste, sobre uma escarpa, era originalmente um mosteiro fundado nos anos 1070 pela Rainha Santa Margarida , para os beneditinos , no sítio onde se levantava uma capela céltica.
El palacio de Dunfermline (en inglés: Dunfermline Palace) es un antiguo palacio real de Escocia, actualmente en ruinas, localizado en Dunfermline, en la región de Fife. Fue construido junto al hospitium de la abadía de Dunfermline, ocupando una posición pintoresca próxima al desfiladero.
O Palácio de Dunfermline (em inglês Dunfermline Palace) é um antigo palácio real da Escócia, actualmente em ruínas, localizado em Dunfermline, na região de Fife. Foi erguido junto ao hospitium da Abadia de Dunfermline, ocupando uma posição pitoresca próxima do desfiladeiro.
