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<br />'''The English College, [[Valladolid]]''', under the patronage of [[St Alban]], was founded in 1589 during the [[protestant reformation]] for the training of [[Catholic priest]]s for the English and Welsh Mission. |
<br />'''The English College, [[Valladolid]]''', under the patronage of [[St Alban]], was founded in 1589 during the [[protestant reformation]] for the training of [[Catholic priest]]s for the English and Welsh Mission. |
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Revision as of 21:57, 4 May 2010
The English College, Valladolid, under the patronage of St Alban, was founded in 1589 during the protestant reformation for the training of Catholic priests for the English and Welsh Mission.
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Today, men of varying ages and backgrounds spend a Propadeutic Year in Valladolid, to discern and begin formation for Catholic priesthood. They are exposed to spiritual and human formation, which roots their faith in Jesus Christ. and prepares them to go on to other seminaries either in the United Kingdom or Ireland--and some to Rome and other places.
Our Lady Vulnerata
The image of Our Lady venerated in the College Chapel is that of La Vulnerata, or The Wounded One. The story of the Vulnerata goes back centuries; but in 1596, as Spain was recovering from the defeat of the Armada and was gathering another fleet in the city of Cadiz, the Earl of Essex together with Sir Walter Raleigh led an English fleet into the harbour, defeating the Spanish fleet and taking possession of the city. Some of the English troops started a riot and dragged a statue of the Virgin Mother and Child from a church to the market square where they desecrated it. They cut off both arms, and all that remained of the Child were parts of his tiny feet on his Mother’s knee. The mutilated statue was taken to Madrid, and given a place of honour in a private chapel of a Countess. The priests and seminarians of the English and Welsh College in Valladolid asked the Countess if they might make reparation for the behaviour of their fellow countrymen who had desecrated the statue. She agreed and the statue was brought to Valladolid and installed with great solemnity in the College Chapel in 1600. Every year during Holy Week the statue is processed along the street, where it is met by a huge paso or float, which has a large depiction of the Crucified Christ resting on top of it. The two images meet, and dance to each other for a brief period—then the Vulnerata comes back to the College. [2]
The College Prayer
May Our Lady Vulnerata, and all our Martyr Saints intercede for us with the Lord that our students and benefactors past and present may be helped and saved by Him. Amen.
College Martyrs
The following alumni of the College gave their lives as martyrs for the Catholic Faith during the protestant reformation in England and Wales:
- Saint Ambrose Barlow OSB
- Saint Thomas Garnet SJ
- Saint John Lloyd
- Saint John Plessington
- Saint John Roberts OSB
- Saint Henry Walpole SJ
- Blessed Ralph Ashley SJ
- Blessed Edward Bamber
- Blessed Mark Barkworth OSB
- Blessed Arthur Bell OSF
- Blessed Thomas Benstead
- Blessed Thomas Bullaker OSF
- Blessed Roger Cadwallador
- Blessed Ralph Corby SJ
- Blessed Robert Drury
- Blessed Roger Filcock SJ
- Blessed Thomas Holland SJ
- Blessed Thomas Palaser OSF
- Blessed Richard Reynolds
- Blessed William Richardson
- Blessed William Southerne
- Blessed Thomas Whitaker
- Venerable Edward Morgan SJ