Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4508

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Mindful also of the fragility of humankind, as the example of the good shepherd was left to his successors, and not for capturing glory, he raised up a tomb for himself, bertween the two columns of the chapel of the Holy Mother, in square stones. . . . Abbot John Ellem . . .also lies buried in the chapel of the Holy Mother to the south.

Memor etiam fragilitatis humanae, ut boni pastoris exemplum successoribus relinqueret, et non ad captandam gloriam, sepulchrum sibi ipsi, inter duas sacelli Divae Matris columnas, lapide quadrato in altum excitavit. Nec defuit illi quem in hac parte sequeretur author, vir optimus abbas Joannes Ellem, qui tabulam incomparabilem majoris arae in Kynlos suo aere adportavit; is etiam, constituto sibi sepulchro, in Divae Matris sacello ad austrum sepultus jacet.

Type of dedication
Chapel (within a church)
Confidence
100
Saint named
Holy Mother
Saint details
ST/JD/2
Date low
None
Date high
1528
Entry reference
EN/EW/2794
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Abbey Kinloss Abbey NJ065615 Kinloss [KSS] Moray 100