The Royal Scots College Salamanca
Still at the service of Christ and His Church
Tributes have been paid to Bishop Ian Murray, former Bishop of Argyll & the Isles, who died on Friday 22 January aged 83. Bishop Murray served in the College as Vice-Rector from 1963-1970 and as Rector from 1987-1994. It was he who implemented the decision to move the College from its home in Valladolid to Read More …
When a painting of Jesus carrying his cross was sent off for restoration in 2013, we little realised what it concealed. It was returned to us, beautifully restored, but having revealed that there was a second canvas stuck behind it, very badly damaged. The restorer had carefully removed this other canvas, an image of a Read More …
In 1770, a priest from the north-east of Scotland, John Geddes, was sent out to Spain by the Scottish bishops to recover the Scots College, which had been closed after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 and whose assets had been taken over by the Irish College in Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid. The Read More …
Over the summer of 2015, the College welcomed groups of visitors and pilgrims from schools and parishes around Scotland. St Ninian’s High School in East Renfrewshire kicked off the summer programme with visits to Ávila, Alba de Tormes, the Peña de Francia and La Alberca. Then, at the end of June (just as Spain entered Read More …
The College was host this year to the students and staff of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome, who spent Holy Week and the Easter Triduum here in Salamanca. For the first few days, the students were les by Fr Tom on their annual Holy Week Retreat – enjoying the Salamanca spring weather as they Read More …
Throughout February and into the beginning of March, work has been underway in the College installing a new lift and installing air-conditioning and renewing the floor in the Dining Room. Both projects, which were fairly disruptive, were carried out at a time when we had no groups or visitors staying in the College – the Read More …
The Bishops of Scotland have nominated Fr Thomas Kilbride of the Archdiocese of Glasgow to succeed Fr Charles O’Farrell as the Rector of the College. Fr Kilbride has been until now Parish Priest of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow and has served for a number of years as Read More …
For a few days in March, the College was host to a group of 10 seminarians and one staff member from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth in Ireland. Part of a short trip to Spain, they spent a coule of days exploring Salamanca and its sites, two even venturing as far as Ávila for an afternoon. Read More …
People in Scotland often think of Spain as a place of constant sunshine and high temperatures. However, away from the “costas”, it can have quite a continental climate – hot in summer, cold in winter. Since Salamanca sits on a high plateau, it also can have quite a cold climate in winter – as these Read More …
Easter Vigil 2008 with the staff and students of Scotus College and The Scots College, Rome. After a retreat during Holy Week, the seminarians from Scotland remained to celebrate the Easter Triduum in the College and to savour something of the famous Spanish “Semana Santa” or Holy Week, including the processions around the city streets Read More …