Cairngorms National Park - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 29 Apr 2019 06:59:15 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Cairngorms National Park - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Secret Catholic seminary from 1700s to be restored https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/04/29/secret-catholic-seminary-from-1700s-to-be-restored/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:51:50 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=117099 A secret Catholic seminary in a group of historic buildings in the Cairngorms is to be restored. Catholic priests were secretly trained at the seminary in the 1700's. Scalan was a small, clandestine community set up in the 18th century in the Braes of Glenlivet at a time when the religion was illegal. The planning Read more

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A secret Catholic seminary in a group of historic buildings in the Cairngorms is to be restored. Catholic priests were secretly trained at the seminary in the 1700's.

Scalan was a small, clandestine community set up in the 18th century in the Braes of Glenlivet at a time when the religion was illegal.

The planning committee of the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) has now granted planning permission to Crown Estate Scotland to carry out a variety of works at the site.

These include the restoration and repair of the north and south mill buildings, bringing a timber waterwheel back into working order and creating new access paths. Read more

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