Word: macleods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making St. Columba's 1,400-year-old prophecy look better & better. Under his guidance the grey stones of the abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy successor to the Celtic saint himself...
Mystical Hard Heads. Sir George F. MacLeod, Bart, was a Winchester-and Oxford-educated captain in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of World War I, holder of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He knew that he wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums...
There, in 1938, George MacLeod began to gather about him a group of young ministers and laymen. Together they evolved their own Rule of faith and worship-a Rule which makes them seem at once as mystical as Franciscans and as hardheaded as Stalinists...
...legend of Nahanni started with the two MacLeod brothers 40 years ago. Their bodies were found in the valley reportedly without heads. That was enough to start people calling it "Headless Valley...
Francis Ernest MacLeod...