Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594)

“We take seminaries for granted today, but they were a new idea at the time, and one of the pioneers of these houses of formation was the man behind the organisation of much of what we know as the English Mission…”

The English College, Lisbon (1622-1972)

“Established at a time of penal persecution in England, it found itself able as a British establishment to help negotiate the marriage of Catherine of Braganza and Charles II…”