Faith in Cowal | Pilgrim Trails

Pope Francis has been talking this week about pilgrimage.  He offers some images and reflections that will be of interest to the communities in Cowal

The Moderator of the Church of Scotland visited the Cowal peninsula and its churches two weeks ago.  The Right Rev. Dr Angus Morrison spent some

The Faith in Cowal project has adopted a beautiful Gaelic hymn as a kind of anthem, a song for pilgrims to sing, for local congregations

The British media have been getting a bit excited in recent weeks (September 2015) about patriotism and love of country. Much of this – if

A most enjoyable visit to the Lamont Aisle this week, a dark vault beside the recently restored parish church of Kilfinan. The very obliging Sinclair

A century and a half ago the Ordnance Survey six-inch map showed St Modan’s Well on the hillside above Kilmodan (i.e. ‘St Modan’s Church’, the

Iona has St Columba; Whithorn has St Ninian; St Andrews has … well, St Andrew.  Major pilgrimage sites across Scotland are associated with saints.  And

A date for your diary.   Let’s go and look for a holy well, Saturday 27th June. Nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps showed a St Modan’s Well

There was a church at Kilmun in Cowal for centuries before 1442, but in that year Duncan Campbell of Lochawe elevated it to the status

Cowal is not generally short of water. Visitors don’t come here to sunbathe week after week, under clear blue skies – though we do get