Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/1946

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

A certain miracle

Sequitur de quodam miraculo, in constructura dicti monasterii, ad preces et lacrimas prefati regis Dauid, apparenter de speciali gracia diuine clemenci ostenso. Post pauca annorum curricula, crescenti diligentissima dicti monasterij Sancte Crucis structura, opere lapideo ecclesie pene consummato [. . .] Et post longa suspiria oracionum et lacrimarum precordiarum lamentabilia, iubet rex missam celebrari de sancta cruce; qua finita, rex se erigens uenit ad corpus recubantis et manu propria faciem discooparuit, quam diligenter intuens, signa quedam uite apparere considerans, iussit corpus eleuari, et ad locum aptum quietis perduci. Abbas uero curam diligentem carpentario adhibens, non medicorum cura, sed specialis crucis gracia et oracione regia, in breui tempore pristine sanitati restitutus est dictus carpentarius, et post longum tempus seruus beate crucis in pace quieuit.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Holy Cross
Saint details
ST/JD/54
Date low
14/9/1128
Date high
None
Entry reference
EN/EW/1703
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
King David I Mac Malcolm Male Monarch 100 King of Scots 1124 to 1153; the last of the sons of Malcolm III, and Queen Margaret (the saint). Prince of Cumbria from c.1113.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Abbey Holyrood Abbey NT269739 Canongate [CGT] Edinburgh 100