Further religious tourism
Jul. 14th, 2016 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcToday I got to take another ferry ride to another island: to visit Inchcolm Abbey, so I again got to enjoy a cloister and a chapter house and their kin, even a dovecote in the bell tower, though they were hardly as lovely as Iona Abbey's. I wonder what Dunfermline Abbey is like, that's still in use. Still, the weather was great and we saw a number of seals from the boat; I was reminded that I quite like boats.
Were I wealthy and inclined to follies then I think I would have a large house built for myself that rather resembles a medieval abbey in various respects.
Reading the informational signs made me curious about the Rule of St Benedict (though I think Inchcolm was Augustinian). The diet of the monks looked interesting, with fish and honey and beans and whatnot. It is interesting to imagine their life together.
Inchcolm Abbey was abandoned after the Protestant Reformation. So much beauty was destroyed in that fervor, enough that one is quite often sadly reminded of it. I suppose that other parts of the world see such iconoclasm even in the present day, under the Taliban and Daesh.
Were I wealthy and inclined to follies then I think I would have a large house built for myself that rather resembles a medieval abbey in various respects.
Reading the informational signs made me curious about the Rule of St Benedict (though I think Inchcolm was Augustinian). The diet of the monks looked interesting, with fish and honey and beans and whatnot. It is interesting to imagine their life together.
Inchcolm Abbey was abandoned after the Protestant Reformation. So much beauty was destroyed in that fervor, enough that one is quite often sadly reminded of it. I suppose that other parts of the world see such iconoclasm even in the present day, under the Taliban and Daesh.
