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ABERNETHY [Contuned]
prayed for the restoration of the Pictish King and was then as it would appear placed at the head of
an establishment of nuns in her Capital. Fordun, indeed does not Scruple to relate that St. Patrick him -
self introduced St. Bridget and her nine nuns into the religious establishment of Abernethy.-
The antiquity as well as the dignity of the Church of Abernethy may be seen in this. that it was
the Seal of the Bishop of the Picts. Fordun says that there were three elections of Bishops at Abernethy whilst
as yet there was only one bishop in the whole Kingdom of the Picts; and that the Church of Abernethy
was founded 227 Some said 244 years before the Church of Dunkeld.
According to Boethius and Buchanan, Kenneth Mc Alpine King of the Dalriad Scots translated the Epis-
Copal See after he subdued the Picts, from Abernethy to St. Andrews in the ninth Century: and the
Bishop of St. Andrews henceforth was Known as the national bishop,Episcopus Scotorum.
The Bishopric of Dunblane within which the parish of Abernethy came to be included was
founded in the twelfth Century by King David I. Seemingly out of the great national bishop-
ric of St. Andrews.
Of the early monastery established at Abernethy and of of the institutions of the Culdees
who had once their principal seats in this parish we possess seating information. From a con-
firmation of som lands which were given to the Culdees of Lochleven we learn that towards the
end of the eleventh century, there were Schools at Abernethy in which was taught the whole
circle of the sciences as far as they were Known in dark ages and among a barbarous people
people. Among witnesses are the rector of the School of Abernethy, three priests of Abernethy
and fourth whos is Styled priest of the Culdees. Almost all the names are evident of Celtic origin
and indicate that the Saxon had not yet supplanted the ancient language in that part of the Country

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