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directions . In Rome , Monsignor Walter Drumm and his colleagues at the Beda College provided congenial hospitality. Many others have helped the work along the way , among them Dr Manuel Moreno Alonso; Fr Thomas Flynn, O.P. , Fr Francis Edwards , S.J. , Dr Felipe Fernández-Armesto ; Dr R. W. Truman; Fr Michael Williams; Dr Nigel Griffin; Fr John J. Silke ; Fr F. J. Turner; Fr Michael Sharratt; Mr Martin Cleary , and many librarians and archivists . I am grateful to the Anglo -Spanish Society for a travel grant which made possible a visit to Rome , and to the Council of the Catholic Record Society for further assistance . Professor T. A. Birrell checked the proofs with an expert eye . Acknowledgements are due to the following for permission to use copyright material : the Roman archives of the Society of Jesus (Annual Letters and Catalogues of the Andalusian Province ) ; the Rector of the English College, Valladolid (Documents 1 , 4 , 8 and 9) ; Professor Pedro Herrera Puga (Document 2 ) ; Bodley's Librarian (Document 3 ) ; the archivist of Simancas (Documents 5 and 6). The frequencyof the words possibly ' and ' probably in the alumni list suggestshow tentative must be many of the details in it . The lastword has not been written. Exoriare aliquis!
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Frontispiece : The Triumph of St Gregory , by Juan de Roelas, paintedin 1608 to hang above the altar of the college chapel , and now at Ushaw College , Durham. A receipt in the college archives records the payment to the artist of the large sum of 1560 reales. Theformally grouped and crowded canvas (4.40 × 2.57m) was evidently composed to a programme , designed to harmonise the themes of martyrdom , Marian devotion, oppositionto heresy, ecclesiastical training, and St Gregory's role in linking the Churches of Seville and England . St Gregory , the Apostle of England , is in the central position. In front of him kneels the royal martyr St Hermenegild , who sacrifices his royal crown rather than accept Arianism, renouncing an earthly kingdom in exchange for the martyr's palm and crown of roses which angels hold above him at the top of the picture. The kneeling figure on the right, wearing the pallium, is St Leander , Archbishop of Seville and friend of St Gregory, who dedicated to him his Liber Moralium . The youths in the right foreground are perhaps English students, represented as under the Archbishop of Seville's protection. To the right and left of St Gregory are ten Spanish bishop-saints who according to tradition were trained at St Leander's ecclesiastical school at Seville in the 6th century an appropriate model for the 16th century college. For further discussion of the painting, see p 20.
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