Pluscarden Abbey
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| Monastery information | |
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| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | c.1230 (re-established in 1948) |
| Disestablished | 1587 |
| Mother house |
Prinknash Abbey (Prev. Val des Choux; Dunfermline Abbey) |
| Dedicated to | Our Blessed Lady, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Andrew |
| Diocese | Diocese of Aberdeen (present) Diocese of Moray (historical) |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Alexander II of Scotland |
| Important associated figures | Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart |
| Site | |
| Coordinates | 57°36′01″N 03°26′18″W / 57.60028°N 3.43833°W |
Pluscarden Abbey is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery located in the glen of the Black Burn about 10 kilometres south-west of Elgin, in Moray, Scotland. It has been for most of its history a priory and was founded in 1230 by Alexander II of Scotland for the Valliscaulian Order.
In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. By 1680 it was in a ruinous condition. Some work to arrest decay took place in the late 19th century. In 1948 the priory sprang into new life as a house of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation of Benedictines, and restoration began at the hands of monks from Prinknash in Gloucestershire. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house; it was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.
The Valliscaulian priory of Pluscarden was founded by King Alexander II. The now defunct Valliscaulian Order was small compared to the great medieval religious houses and emerged at a time when austere monasticism had spread across Europe c. 1075–1200. The founder of the Order was Viard who trained as a lay cleric at the Charterhouse of Lugny, Leuglay.
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