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 …
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 …
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 …