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

What a glorious bout of weather for the Annual Scalan Mass at the Secret College which once was a place of refuge and study amid the...

Fr Michael Briody, President of the Scalan Association, has been appointed by the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland as Vice-President of...

The Scalan Association exists to preserve the house and some ancillary buildings and to promote knowledge of The Scalan throughout...

The Annual Pilgrimage Mass at Scalan takes place this year on Sunday 1st July at 4.00pm. Scalan can be reached by leaving Tomintoul on...

After the destruction of the college on Loch Morar, Bishop Gordon turned to his kinsman the Duke of Gordon for a safe place for a...

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...

Continuing on the theme of the difficulties encountered by Scots Catholics during the Penal Times, communications with Rome, other places...

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...