He died on 11 February 1799, at the age of sixty-three. The last five years he was not able to celebrate Mass because of paralysis and...

He returned to Scotland in 1781 after eleven years in Spain. He was now 45 years old. He had been consecrated bishop in Spain to come...

After five years in Scalan, only days after opening the new building, he was moved to Preshome, near Buckie, a missionary post, but also...

When the young priest, John Geddes, arrived at his mission station in the Cabrach, He discovered that he was to share his house at...

Continuing the story of Bishop John Geddes... His father died in 1747, when John was twelve. At the age of fourteen, he set out from...

Bishop John Geddes has been mentioned in recent posts. Who was he? He was born in 1735 in the Enzie, the area around Buckie which, in the...

Scalan did not escape entirely the attentions of the authorities and was completely destroyed after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s failed 1745...

With the passage of time, the Bishops had some dissatisfaction with the seminaries on the continent. Too many students were leaving. A...

The Reformation came late to Scotland when we consider that the first Penal Laws were passed in 1560, but the Church had already reacted...