The Royal Scots College Salamanca
Still at the service of Christ and His Church
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A group of over 30 S4 pupils, together with teachers and two chaplains, from St Ninian’s High School in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, spent four days visiting the College and its surroundings in September 2016. Over the past few years, as part of their S4 Spanish programme, pupils have visited the sights of Salamanca, learned something about Read More …