It was Robert the Bruce’s dying wish - and now it has been honoured some 700 years later by a group of ordinary men with an extraordinary plan.
Details of the journey that took Robert I’s ‘heart’ to the Holy Land have emerged in a new book, with the very modern pilgrimage starting in an old railway station building in Renton in West Dunbartonshire and ending in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
For more than 15 years, the Strathleven Artizans have planned to get the heart to the Holy Land with a wooden replica - carved from the Bruce Oak - taken to Jerusalem in a very modern pilgrimage.
