Leighton Library

🗓️🇪🇸🗣️✍️ Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" - the works of Spanish priest, preacher, author, and religious mystic declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church, Juan de Ávila, who died 1569. During his nine years of missionary work in Andalusia (where he was known as the "Apostle of Andalusia", for his extensive ministry in that region) crowds packed the churches at all his sermons. However, his strong pleas for reform and his denunciation of the behaviour of the aristocracy meant that he was denounced to the office of the Inquisition in Seville in 1531, and put in prison in the summer of 1532. He was charged with exaggerating the dangers of wealth and with closing the gates of heaven to the rich. The charges were refuted and he was declared innocent and released in July 1533

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1737 English essayist, historian, and politician Edward Gibbon was born. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has an edition published between 1776-1788 of the 6 volumes of his most important work "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

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🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

1711 David Hume, one of the most important figures in the history of western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, was born. He was a philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has the 8-volume 1763 edition of his "The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688"

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🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Monday-Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)

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Please support the Leighton Library Undercroft Development project - find out more about what’s planned & donate at the following link:
https://www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/undercroft-development

🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
📅 Open Monday-Saturday
🕚 11am-4pm
🆓 Free admission (donations invited)