St Cuthbert's Way with Melrose in the background

sabbatical 2019 - St Cuthbert's Way

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August 1st 2019
We started hiking St. Cuthbert's Way today out of Melrose. We started at Melrose Abbey, one of the finest preserved Abbey ruins in Great Britain. What a shame that "in the name of God", so many of these magnificent edifices were destroyed or terribly damaged during the Reformation, when the reformers were against idolatry in the Church. So change your theology and use the building for a new pur ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more