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Celebrating "Midnight" Mass
Bishop John Geddes (1735-99) built the house at Scalan which we can visit today. He lived in turbulent times. Here are his memories of...
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Scalan News No. 53
The latest edition of the Scalan News, the twice-yearly publication of the Scalan Association has just gone into the Royal Mail. It is...
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Happy & Holy Christmas
A Happy and Holy Christmas from the Scalan Association officebearers to all our members; to those who follow on Facebook; and all who...
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Early Days of Scalan
From its early days Scalan began accepting boys as paying ‘lay boarders’, students not planning to follow a priestly vocation but who...
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An all-through college?
The bishops envisaged Scalan as an all-through College, one that would be both a Junior and a Senior seminary. It would take students...