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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. Machar's church was superseded by a Norman cathedral in 1131. Almost nothing of that original cathedral survives; a lozenge-decorated base for a capital supporting one of the architraves can be seen in the Charter Room in the present church.
After the execution of William Wallace in 1305, his body was cut up and sent to different corners of the country to warn other dissenters. His left quarter ended up in Aberdeen and is buried in the walls of the Cathedral.
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Spring by Mike Stephen, on Flickr
St Machar's Cathedral by Mike Stephen, on Flickr
St Machar's Cathedral Interior. by Mike Stephen, on Flickr
After the execution of William Wallace in 1305, his body was cut up and sent to different corners of the country to warn other dissenters. His left quarter ended up in Aberdeen and is buried in the walls of the Cathedral.
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Spring by Mike Stephen, on FlickrSt Machar's Cathedral by Mike Stephen, on FlickrSt Machar's Cathedral Interior. by Mike Stephen, on Flickr
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