The Two Babylons - Chapter V Rites and Ceremonies I. Idol Processions - Alexander Hislop - 1858

Alexander Hislop

Those who have read the account of the last idol procession in the capital of Scotland, in John Knox's History of the Reformation, cannot easily have forgot the tragicomedy with which it ended. The light of the Gospel had widely spread, the Popish idols had lost their fascination, and popular antipathy was everywhere rising against them. "The images," says the historian, "were stolen away in all parts of the country; and in Edinburgh was that great idol called Sanct Geyle [the patron saint of the capital], first drowned in the North Loch, after burnt, which raised no small trouble in the town." The bishops demanded of the Town Council either "to get them again the old Sanct Geyle, or else, upon their (own) expenses, to make a new image." The Town Council could not do the one, and the other they absolutely refused to do; for they were now convinced of the sin of idolatry. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library