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ABBEY-A Relic of the Days when Scotland was Catholic
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was the curliest Cistercian Monastery in Scotland. its first established Community came from Itielvaux, the (5! .1 lIti I'', :' Yorishin, house colonized 1,0151 Citeri, For t lie of IIn less than ten years aux. i,r;.,1 Ibi!t, to tat., Mary's Abbey, Melrose, hail been 1, rii When lee !Aiken .arches .re completely built. It stood in a broad IT: halt ni 'hi glen south of the Tweed, two miles .'ire, in .1,11 :401',$ v,!1.. And each slrifted .014e1 distant from the celtic Monastery of teeleiletice those slays of misrule white ; old Melrose, where St. Cuthbert had Lees e here reo,' When the cold light's uncertain lived live centuries before. :Melrose 1.1d as a (pilot aiel ti ii 'bits refuge shmver Abbey suffered greatly from hostile inf ney owl (4'1 a -e ; rr Streams on the ruined central fur incursions of more than one English sh'lter of restieetfq.1 aritiathy for tha tower ; monarch ; the soldiers of Edward II. When buttress and hettress, al env,- orpla.n maiden and VI^ d^s tl rte widesecrated, pillaged and berned the dow ; as central points whence agritely church ; Richard II., in 1386, laid culture was to s -re id over bleak Seem framed of ebon and ivory waste the surrounding country and hills and barren doe ns and marshy When silver edges the imagery, set tire to the Abbey. Mainly millions plains, to its bread and deal to scrolls that thee the teach And through the, generosity of Robert the perishing with hunger and its pestilive and die ; Bruce, a more stately church was When distant Tweed is heard to rave, lential train ; as repositories of the begun in 1326, and scarcely completlearning that then WAS, and wellAnd the owlet to hoot o'er the dead ed by the sixteenth century. Crucistirings of tl.e learning that WAS TO man's grave, form in shape, built in English Per. The monasteries were BE. . Then go,-hut go alone the whilependicular, Decorated, and Flamboycentres of learning, of civilisation, Than view it. David's ruined pile ; ant styles, 250 feet in length, Melrose and of charity." And home returning, soothly swear. was distinguished for the fairy-like IS A A LAND AVITHOUT RUINS Was never scene so sad and fair." lightness of its carvings and window -Sir Walter Scott (' Lay of the Last LAND WITHOUT MEMORIES. A tracery, finished with exquisite care. a land Inlnntl e itho lit memories is Minstrel," ('anto 2, Verse II. Not only the Royal founder, but succountless ceeding Sovereigns, and benefactors, nobles and commoners, so richly endowed Melrose with lands and possessions that its annual revenue is computed at £100,000 of present money value. One example of the application of such revenues is told in 12th century records. During a time of famine 4,000 starving people were fed by the monastery for three months. Many- of the abbots were men of distinction Abbot Waltheof (1148), stepson of David I., and honoured as a saint ; AbbotJoseelin, afterwards Bishop of Glasgow (1175), took a prominent part in the erection of the fine cathedral of that city as a shrine for the body of St. Mungo Abbot Robert (1268) had been formerly Chancellor of Scotland; Abbot Andrew (1440) became Lord ligh Treasurer ; litany others were raised to the episcopate. The English troops of Henry VIII. burned Melrose in 1544. Although the monks were once numbered 200, and there 130 as Into as twenty years before the Reformation, eleven only received tensions at the dissolution, so quickly must they have been dispersed. After many viscissitudes, the possessions of the Abbey came finally to the Buccleuch family. The ruins were further devastated by a fanatical mob in 1569, when statues and carvings were ruthless* destroyed ; but more wanton still was the subsequent cartRUINS OF MELROSE .\BBEY, SCOTLAND. ing away of the sacred stones in great numbers to serve as building "Whatever makes the past, the dis- without history. A land that wears the modern artist in stone. The materials. The result is seen in the tant or the future predominate over a laurel crown may be fair to see ; facile, and at the same time elabor- carved religious emblems still appeartl.e present advances us in the dig- but twine a few sad cypress leaves ate rendering of vegetable corms, ing in and upon surrounding houses. nity of thinking beings. Far from around the brow of any land ; such as the Scotch "kali," is par- The ruins of the once noble abbey me and from my friends he suer) and he that land bgirren, beautiless, ticularly striking. beautiful picture It was in the Abbey Church of Mel- form a strikingly frigid philosophy as may conduct us and bleak, it becomes lovely in its from the North British Railway, abindifferent and unmoved over any consecrated coronet of sorrow, and rose where Alexander II. had long out 37 miles south of Edinburgh. the sympathy of the heart before been buried near the high alground which has been dignified by it wins Fatter Abraham tar that the heart of Bruce found its wisdom, bravery or virtue. That man and of history. is little to be envied whose patriot- Ryan has beautifully embodied this final resting place ; and among the many tombs which afterwards gath- HAIRDRESSER and TOBACCONIST ism would not gain force upon the idea in verse697 HAY ST., NEXT SANDOVER. plain of Marathon, or whose piety "Give me the land of the wreck and ered under the same roof were those of his faithful James Lord Douglas, Try the latest innovation-Electric would not grow warmer among the the tomb, ruins of Iona." These words of the There is grandeur in graves-there is Sir William, the dark knight of Lid- Brushes, Massage, etc. Three Chairs desdale and the hero of Chevy Chase. going. Tobacco Blending a Specialcelebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson anent glory in gloom. ity. Benevolent Expenditure- Annual the ruins of Iona, the scene of the . . Revenue £100,000 missionary labours of the great Irish And each single wreck in the warIn the 'Catholic Encyclopedia" the Religious Art Gallery Apostle, St. Columba, may be fitpath of might tingly applied to the ruins of Mel- Shall yet he a rock in the temple of Rev. Michael Barrett, O.S.B., of St. Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Eng- 244 ELIZABETH ST. MELBOURNE. rose Abbey, whose stately though deright !" land, gives the following interesting 489 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY. caying ruins call to mind an era of Historic Associations particulars of that monument-great the Scotland's Catholic greatness Besides the "Chronicle" (opening even in its fall-of the faith nobly & Co. period before the desecrating Land of the spoiler touched those venerable with the year 735 and ending abrupt- professed by the Scotch people, when Manufacturers of Religious Stat.*. monastic institutions, the centres of ly in 1270), Melroseehas handed down those brave Caledonians who, before in ary and all Church Metalware. Dilearning and true Christian bene- hundreds of charters and royal writs the voice of John Knox was heard dating from the reign of David I. to the land, maintained their allegiance rect Importers of Church Vestments volence, and all kinds of Devotional Articles. "It is quite impossible," says Pro- that of Bruce, and forming a most to the ('hair of Peter :Melrose Abbey, in Roxburgshire, Wholesale and Retail. Orders b7 fessor Maitland, "to touch the sub- valuable collection rich in illustrapost promptly executed. ject of monasticism without rubbing tions of the social life and economy founded in 1136 by King David I.,
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