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History of the Royal Scots College in Spain

"Directed to his greater service" since 1627

Today, the Royal Scots College is the place where Scotland's seminarians begin their journey of priestly formation. It is also a place where many come for rest, retreat and study. Welcome to our website!

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Propaedeutic Seminary 2019

Posted on04/10/201905/10/2019AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

There was a great atmosphere in the College for the first half of 2019, as our fourth Propaedeutic Course group of seminarians began their journey in priestly formation… Read More …

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Education Faculty Summer School

Posted on24/09/201824/09/2018AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

The College hosted its first formal collaboration with the St Andrews Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education this summer, with a summer school organised and led by staff of the Foundation from Glasgow University for students pursuing the B.Ed course at the university.  As part of their studies for the Religious Education element of their course, Read More …

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Propaedeutic Seminary 2018

Posted on07/09/2018AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

This year, we have welcomed our largest group yet for the Propaedeutic Seminary session – 14 men in total. Most are from around Scotland (from Coatbridge to Cupar, Dennistoun to Dundee, Rosyth to Greenock, Kilwinning to Elgin) but we have been joined also by two seminarians from dioceses in Ireland. The course has been much Read More …

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Holy Week in Rome 2018

Posted on26/04/2018AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

As in previous years, our community made a pilgrimage to Rome for Holy Week and Easter this year, joining the community of the Pontifical Scots College for the silent Holy Week retreat and for the celebration of the Easter Triduum. Although we are a much larger community this year – and so could easily sustain Read More …

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Summer 2017

Posted on24/11/201724/09/2018AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

After our propaedeutic course ended, the College took up its “other life” as a home-from-home for visiting groups from Scotland and elsewhere (i.e. we even had a few from Ireland this summer!). First up was a group from Holy Cross parish in Glasgow, led by their Parish Priest, Mgr Hugh Bradley, along with their former Read More …

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Easter Vigil in Rome, 2017

Posted on27/04/201727/04/2017AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

For Holy Week 2017, the students and the Rector travelled to Rome to join with the community of the Pontifical Scots College to celebrate the great feasts of the Triduum and – for the students – to enter into some days of silent retreat beforehand.  This in itself was a great opportunity for making and Read More …

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Holy Week and Easter 2017

Posted on05/04/201705/04/2017AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

Following on from the positive experience of the first Propaedeutic Session in 2016, the Pontifical Scots College in Rome has again invited our small group of seminarians to join their community for their Holy Week retreat this year. A full five days of silent retreat (a new experience for some!), this takes place in a Read More …

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Bringing the College’s History to Light

Posted on24/03/201724/03/2017AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride

In 1971, the then Rector, Fr Maurice Taylor, later to become bishop of Galloway, published “The Scots College in Spain”, practically the definitive word in the history of the College to that point. Since then, the College has undergone many changes and faced many new challenges, not least, of course, its move to Salamanca, its closure Read More …

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Coltness & Cleland – Visit 2016

Posted on26/01/201724/09/2018AuthorRev Thomas Kilbride1 Comment

Friday January 20th 2017 – a dark winter night, with the typically Scottish “post-Christmas”, January blues… In St Aidan’s parish Hall in Wishaw, however, the winter chills were scattered by memories of summer sunshine, as the group who had come to Salamanca in July of the pervious year held a reunion. Memories and stories were Read More …

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Bishops’ Visit, January 2016

Posted on30/11/2016AuthorRev Thomas KilbrideLeave a comment

As has become the custom over the past few years, the College hosted the Bishops of Scotland for a week in January 2016 for their annual in-service conference. The week provided the bishops with the opportunity for a Day of Recollection (led this year by Fr Peter Muller, an American Norbertine priest based in Salamanca) Read More …

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Our prayers for Canon Goward and all of the Oscott community. RIP. @OscottCollege

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We offer our sincere sympathy to them and to all of the community of St Mary's College on the sad death of their Rector and ask you to pray for Canon Goward's eternal rest.

Our Lady, Queen of Priests, pray for him
St Thomas Aquinas, pray for him.

Requiescat in pace.

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Your annual glimpse at our 1787 Edinburgh edition. Happy Burns Night! #YerHonestSonsieFace

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We thank the Rector, staff, sisters and seminarians of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome for the warmth of their welcome, their hospitality and companionship as our two Colleges shared the Holy Week retreat and Easter Triduum together. It has been a wonderful experience of fellowship, prayer and not a little laughter along the way too. New friendships made; old ones renewed. Happy Easter/Buona Pasqua/Feliz Pascua to everyone! ... See more

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Fr John Haran – The Royal Scots College Salamanca

A little addition to the part of the website which tells about people from the College's history over the years: Fr John Haran, ordained in 1936, one of the last priests ordained in Valladolid before the Spanish Civil War forced the College's closure together with an image of him from1996, shortly after his Diamond Jubilee and not long before he died, visiting Salamanca for the solemn blessing and opening of the newly-refurbished College building. RIP. The second image is courtesy of Fr Michael Briody.

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Fr John Haran One of the photographs on the College History page (“College People”) is of the last group of students to be ordained from the College before the Spanish Civil War impacted on life in Valladolid and the student body had to be sent home. The picture is from 1936 and shows four newly ord... ... See more

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3 years ago
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Our College is 390 years old today - and still looking good!
With this in mind, we paused today to celebrate with thanksgiving all those who have gone before us over those centuries, our benefactors, former students and staff, employees and friends. In particular, we gave thanks for the faith, vision and no little persistence of our founders, Colonel William Semple (of the Lochwinnoch Semples) and his wife, Doña María de Ledesma. They gave over their Madrid home to be a place of formation for Scots priests to return to their homeland to serve the (at that time underground) Catholic communities there.
Elsewhere in this page there are pictures of the two Founders. Attached here is their coat of arms and a little extract from one of the Royal Charters of the College which describes their zeal and hopes: "with pious zeal and thankful for the many mercies and benefits which they had received from the mighty hand of God, desiring to do some good work directed to his greater service... were determined to found... and endow a Seminary for Scots secular students" (ie students for 'diocesan' priesthood).
Their College has prepared so many priests, bishops, dedicated Catholic laymen and others who have served (and are still serving) the Church in Scotland and beyond for almost 400 years... One wonders if they ever imagined their legacy would be this long-lasting!
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