St Anthony's Chapel

FRANCIS McCormack, from Grindlay Street, is hoping readers can help him with a question about St Anthony's Chapel in Holyrood Park.

"Which St Anthony is it named after?" he asks. "I think in ancient times there was one, a hermit, in the Middle East, yet another lived in Padua in the 12th century. There are others too, but which one is this chapel named after?"

Mr McCormack also asks: "The first General Assembly of the Church of Scotland took place in the Magdalen Chapel, in the Cowgate, in December 1560. There were six men present. Who were they?"

John Blyth writes: "As the chapel appears to have been in existence before 1300, it would have been St Anthony of Egypt." He was a hermit and one of the earliest monks, considered to be the father of organised Christian monasticism.

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