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圣吉尔斯大教堂 （St. Giles' Cathedral）隸屬 蘇格蘭教會 ，位于苏格兰 爱丁堡老城 皇家一英里 的中点，其独特的苏格兰王冠尖顶是 爱丁堡 天际线的特點之一。. 教堂作为爱丁堡的宗教枢纽已有900年，時至今日，它是苏格兰教会在 爱丁堡老城 的堂会，每个主日 ...
According to legend, St Giles himself had been a seventh-century Greek hermit who lived in the forests near Nîmes, in the south of France, with a tame deer as his only companion. One day the King of the Visigoths, out hunting, shot at the deer, only to find it held protectively in the arms of Giles, who had been wounded in the hand by the arrow.
Robert Wallace (minister) Charles Warr. Alexander Webster. Henry Whitley. Wallace Williamson. Categories: St Giles' Cathedral. Ministers of the Church of Scotland.
Jenny Geddes. Robert Mean? [2] Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland 's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.
12 de set. de 2022 · Landmark for Centuries. St. Giles’ was founded in 1124 as a small Romanesque church. In the 1300s, St. Giles’ was set on fire twice. Once under the orders of Edward II and later on the orders of Richard II. Much of the Kirk we can see today largely dates from the rebuilding of the 14th century.
In 1633, King Charles I appointed Scottish Episcopal bishops in Scotland and in 1635 William Forbes became the first bishop of the new diocese of Edinburgh, with St Giles’ as its cathedral, which it remained until 1638 and again from 1661-1689. That St Giles’ is commonly called a cathedral dates from this period."
About St Giles’ St Giles’ Cathedral, founded in 1124 by King David I, has been a working church for almost 900 years. A backdrop to Scotland’s turbulent religious history, it has seen the seeds of civil war sown and been John Knox’s parish church during the Reformation.
