The Royal Scots College Salamanca
Still at the service of Christ and His Church
For the first time since 2019, the College this year was able to host seminarians for the full six months of our regular Propaedeutic Course. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 cohort had to go home, completing their course online over those remaining months (see here) while in 2021, travel restrictions were reimposed by Read More …
On the evening of the 31st of May 1771, the small community of priests and seminarians of the Scots College in Spain moved in to their new home in the former Jesuit College of San Ambrosio in Valladolid. There, after prayers had been said, in company with the staff and students of the Royal English Read More …
September 2020 saw the launch of a new book outlining the history of the College’s “summer house” in Boecillo, a small village on the banks of the river Duero. The house – known also as the “Casa Grande” (the “Big House”) – was built in the late 1790s as a place the students could go 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 …
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 …