Present-day students at the Venerable English College typically spend Christmas at home with family and friends.
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The canonization of John Henry Newman (1801–90) is an event of major importance for the universal Church, bringing many pilgrims to Rome for the celebrations.
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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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Seventy-five years ago the Allies mounted the greatest amphibious invasion yet attempted and landed on the Normandy beaches.
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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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