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The Scalan: Scotland's Secret Seminary in the Heather
In this episode, Lucas and Luna uncover the story of the Scalan, a hidden Catholic seminary in the Braes of Glenlivet that operated during the brutal decades after the Jacobite rising of 1715. When the British government outlawed Catholic education and hunted priests, a handful of brave men built a tiny college in a remote glen, training priests in secret for a persecuted Church. We explore the life of Bishop James Gordon, who founded the Scalan in 1717; the harsh conditions students endured, sleeping in a loft above a byre; the constant threat of Redcoat raids; the famous 'Scalan…
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