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Show Story of Elgin We might use the glamorous worda of childhood's fairy tales. "Long sgo and far away," to teil the tale of Elgin cathedral, whose seven hundredth birthday was celebrated last August 5 and & So long ago as the twilight time of the early Middle ages, ao far away aa Itome, must we go for the beginnings be-ginnings of the story of this hoary old pile, whose Influence has been casting Its spell upon the lives of the dwellers In the old province of Moray from that far-off time to the present. There is an old tradition that the Culdeea founded the church to begin with. )nat as tbey did that of Blrnle. In any rasa, the site was already hallowed by many sacred ' associations. when Bishop Andrew Moray, acton of (he powerful house of De Moravia, moved the Cathedral of Spynle to the Church of Holy Trinity la Elfin. j |