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ACCOUNT

OF

RE-OPENING OF CHAPEL

AT

GLAMIS CASTLE,

ON

THE FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL AND ALL

ANGELS, 1866.

Reprinted from "Montrose Standard," 5th Oct., 1866.

"IN TE, DOMINE, SPERAVI."

GLAMIS CASTLE.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.

1866.

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PREFATORY.

The following account has been reprinted to meet the wishes of the many friends present at the ceremony and at a distance who wished to have copies. It only remains to add that, according to Jervise in his Memorials of Angus, the Chapel was probably dedicated to "the Nine Maidens." Jervise says "The Nine Maidens

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are said to have been daughters of St Donald, "a Scot, who lived among the Picts in the Glen "of Ogilvy. According to the legend, their "father and they lived in a hermitage, labouring "the ground with their own hands, eating but

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once a-day, and then but barley-bread and "water. After their father's death, they went "to Abernethy, where they had a lodging and

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oratory, and dying there, were buried at the "foot of a large oak, which was much frequented

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