The Royal Scots College Salamanca
Still at the service of Christ and His Church
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 …