St Machar’s Cathedral

Calum & went for a short drive to the beach. The weather is a lot nicer today. On the way back we passed by St Machar’s Cathedral. Then the family came around for afternoon tea. 

St Machar's Cathedral usually called Old Machar is located to the north of the city centre, in Old Aberdeen. Technically, St Machar's is no longer a cathedral but rather a high kirk, as it has not been the seat of a bishop since 1690.

St Machar is said to have been a companion of St Columba on his journey to Iona. A fourteenth-century legend tells how God (or St Columba) told Machar to establish a church where a river bends into the shape of a bishop's crosier before flowing into the sea. The River Don bends in this way just below where the cathedral now stands. According to legend, St Machar founded a site of worship in Old Aberdeen in about 580. 
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