Category: Scottish Catholicism

• Cardinal Richelieu’s Scottish Poet

  Amongst the many remarkable things preserved in the Scottish Catholic Archives is a small, richly-bound manuscript book: This is the album amicorum or friendship book of George Strachan, a young Scot from the Mearns, who travelled to the continent for his education at the end of the sixteenth century.  Strachan’s story is a remarkable one – […]

  kelseyjacksonwilliams

  October 14, 2016

  Manuscripts, Poetry, Scottish Catholicism