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The Royal English College, Valladolid, for the training of Catholic priests for the English and Welsh Mission, is under the patronage of St Alban. It was founded with the permission of King Philip II of Spain by the English priest Robert Persons in 1589, during the English Reformation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sanalbano.org/home/college-history-page-1-of-2/ )〕 Today, men of varying ages and backgrounds spend a Propaedeutic Year in Valladolid, to discern their vocation and begin formation for Catholic priesthood. They are exposed to spiritual and human formation, which roots their faith in Jesus Christ, and prepares them to go on to other seminaries either in the United Kingdom or Ireland—and some to Rome and other places. ==Our Lady Vulnerata== The image of Our Lady venerated in the College Chapel is that of ''La Vulnerata'', or ''The Wounded One''. The story of the Vulnerata goes back centuries; but in 1596, as Spain was recovering from the defeat of the Armada and was gathering another fleet in the city of Cadiz, the Earl of Essex together with Sir Walter Raleigh led an English fleet into the harbour, defeating the Spanish fleet and taking possession of the city. Some of the English troops started a riot and dragged a statue of the Virgin Mother and Child from a church to the market square where they desecrated it. They cut off both arms, and all that remained of the child were parts of his tiny feet on his mother’s knee. The mutilated statue was taken to Madrid, and given a place of honour in a private chapel of a Countess. The priests and seminarians of the English College in Valladolid asked the Countess if they might make reparation for the behaviour of their fellow countrymen who had desecrated the statue. She agreed and the statue was brought to Valladolid and installed with great solemnity in the College Chapel in 1600. Every year during Holy Week the statue is processed along the street, where it is met by a huge paso or float, which has a large depiction of the Crucified Christ resting on top of it. The two images meet, and dance to each other for a brief period—then the Vulnerata comes back to the College. 〔Williams, M., ''St Alban's College, Valladolid: Four Centuries of English Catholic Presence in Spain'' (London: C Hurst & Co, 1986)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「English College, Valladolid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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