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Choir of Pluscarden Abbey

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Pluscarden Abbey

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Spirituality and belief

Final Fling’s Founder, Barbara Chalmers, is exploring Spirituality and Belief as part of a Masters in Design Innovation at the esteemed Glasgow School of Art:

I imagine that spirituality and belief comes into sharp focus for many of us when we are facing mortality… in our daily reflections, at times of heightened awareness, when we’re coping with death, dying and loss. Spirituality might feel…

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Pluscarden Abbey Scotland by Derek11 Via Flickr: In a wooded area east of Forres is Pluscarden Abbey, founded as a Valliscaulian priory in 1230. In 1943 the priory was resuscitated when then owner Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart donated it to the Benedictine community of Prinknash. These were Anglican Benedictines who had converted to Catholicism as a community in 1913. For a few years (1951-55) Fr. Bede Griffiths lived here. In 1974 Pluscarden Priory became Pluscarden Abbey.