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Crossraguel
Abbey will play host to a 25-strong delegation from Cluniac
sites in Switzerland and France on Saturday, 15th
May. Provost Winifred Sloan and Scottish government minister
for Children and Early Years, Adam Ingram, MSP will welcome
the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Cluny as well as other elected
representatives from the Burgundian town and region, tourism
officials and members of the Federation of Cluniac Sites.
Well-known
historical re-enactors, Denis Reid of Girvan, Hugh Robertson
of Kilmarnock and members of Carrick 800 will present two
scenes from the history of the abbey |
Scotland’s week-end of celebrations, which starts
with a free concert by Canty and William Taylor in Glasgow
Cathedral and includes exhibitions, coach tours, a children’s
bowling competition in Dundonald, a conference and Medieval Fair,
has been recognised by the French cultural and educational
Federation as being in the top six among nearly three hundred events
across the continent celebrating the 1,100th anniversary
of the Abbey of Cluny.
A special exhibition in Maybole Castle, showing
Crossraguel’s links with Cluny, will open on Wednesday 19th
May from 2-4:30 pm and will be open on 19 other days through the
season.
The Franco-Swiss visit will establish new
cultural links between Ayrshire and a wide network of Cluniac sites
in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and England which will lead to
increasing numbers of visitors from these countries attracted to
Crossraguel - the most complete Cluniac site in the UK.
The abbey is to be re-created in digital form by
a team of technicians from Cluny as part of a 100,000 euro
investment by the French Federation of Cluniac Sites and a
prestigious French college working in collaboration with Historic
Scotland. Apart from the 3-D computer images there will be a
substantial tourism dossier produced which will form an important
element in the planned Pilgrims’ Trail from Paisley to Whithorn via
Crossraguel.
Additional information
– Black Raven Living History scenarios for Crossraguel
1216
Founding of the Abbey with Duncan Earl of Carrick handing
over rights to the land along with the churches of Dailly, Straiton
and Kirkoswald, to the monks (Abbot) on the understanding that a
daughter Abbey be founded here from Paisley.
As a
result of the above only a small oratory was founded as Paisley did
not wan t to lose the revenue from the attached churches
1244
The
matter is brought before Bishop William in the Episcopal
Court at Glasgow when he rules that a Cluniac Monastery should be
founded at Crossraguel and endowed with all Paisley’s possessions in
Carrick as Earl Duncan had intended.
Further information:
www.cluny2010scotland.info
www.cluny2010.eu
James
Brown
baltersan.castle@btinternet.com
Tel :
01292 610 790
Mobile :
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