Visitors, students and staff alike have a great fondness for ‘dear old Palazzola’, the Venerable English College’s beautiful villa just outside Rome, with its unrivalled views of Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo.
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Among the collections in the Archives of the Venerable English College are detailed financial records dating from the sixteenth century onwards.
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Seventy-five years ago the Allies mounted the greatest amphibious invasion yet attempted and landed on the Normandy beaches.
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During the early modern period, the Venerable English College in Rome, as well as being a seminary, was also a port of call for many travellers, principally from England and Wales.
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Thomas Fitzherbert was born at the family seat of Swynnerton, Staffordshire, on 4 September 1552. From 1568 he was a student at the University of Oxford, where he met many other like-minded Catholics, including the future martyr St Edmund Campion (1540–81).
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Monday 11 February 1929. ‘A rainy day’, reported the diarist of the Venerable English College, ‘and a great one in Rome’s history’. Since it was Ash Wednesday later that week and the anniversary of the pope’s coronation, it started as a gita day.
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In January our thoughts turn to unity among Christians, an intention for which we particularly pray between 18 and 25 January.
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Amid this year’s Christmas celebrations, spare a thought for an important anniversary: the 200th anniversary of the re-foundation of the Venerable English College.
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Rome is many things to many people but it is most definitely not a ‘Gothic’ city. There are very few spires and flying buttresses, as one finds in other parts of Europe.
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