Holyrood

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Holyrood or Holy rood is an anglicisation of the Scots haly ruid (holy cross).

Contents 1 The Holy Rood 2 Other uses 2.1 Scotland 2.2 England 2.3 Canada 2.4 United States 2.5 Music 3 See also 4 References

[edit] The Holy Rood

The Holy rood is widely considered to be a part of the cross on which Jesus died.

Saint Margaret, the Princess of England in exile in Hungary, who married Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scotland, was supposed to have brought the 'Holy Rood' or fragment of Christ's cross/relic to Scotland. A fragment of the Holy Rood was brought to a Cistercian Abbey in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland by Isabella of Angoulême, widow of King John of England, and thenceforth the Abbey was called Holy Cross Abbey. It is also called the Black Rood of Scotland^[1] (likely for the black case in which it was kept). As a sign of the conquest of the Scottish kingdom, the Black Rood has been removed from Scotland to London together with the Stone of Destiny in 1296 by Edward I, King of England.

The term is also applied to the black flint cross at Waltham Abbey in Essex, England. The Holy Rood or Cross was the subject of veneration and pilgramage in the middle ages, but disappeared when the Abbey was dissolved in 1540^[2].

[edit] Other uses

The name Holyrood may refer to:

[edit] Scotland

• Holyrood, a metonym for the Scottish Parliament, or the Scottish Parliament Building (so named because they are in the Holyrood district of Edinburgh)
• Holyrood, Edinburgh, one of the areas of Edinburgh (partly coterminous with Dumbiedykes), named after Holyrood Abbey and Palace
• Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, a ruined Augustinian abbey now in the grounds of Holyrood Palace (this is the original Holyrood)
• The Palace of Holyroodhouse, informally Holyrood Palace, in Edinburgh, named after Holyrood Abbey
• Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, facing the Holyrood Palace
• Holyrood Secondary School, a Roman Catholic secondary school in the south side of Glasgow, the largest school in Scotland

[edit] England

• Holy Rood Catholic Church, Market Rasen
• Holy Rood Church, Ossington, Nottinghamshire
• Holyrood Church, Southampton, a former church in Southampton which was destroyed by bombing in World War II and is now a memorial to the men of the merchant navy who died in the war.
• Holyrood Church, Titchfield[1]

[edit] Canada

• Holyrood, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town in Newfoundland
  • Holyrood Thermal Generating Station, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
• Holyrood, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Alberta
  • Holyrood Elementary School, Edmonton, Alberta

[edit] United States

• Holyrood, Kansas, a small town near the center of the state

[edit] Music

• "Holyrood", the march of the RAF Regiment

[edit] See also

• Dream of the Rood
• Church of the Holy Rude
• Rood (Scots)

[edit] References

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