St. Patrick's College, Maynooth

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• Fourteen new seminarians - 22 August 2010
  St Patrick’s College Maynooth has today welcomed fourteen new seminarians who will commence their formation for the priesthood at the National Seminary. At the end of September the number of seminarians in Maynooth will be approximately 65.
  
  
• Maynooth College Lapel-Pin
  The Maynooth College Lapel-Pin is once again available from the Development Office. Supplied in a handsome lined gift-box it can make an ideal memento for students, alumni, priests or students of the College and Pontifical University.
  Cost: €10.00 includes a donation to the Seminary Fund.
  
  
• Filming on Campus
  The College Buildings and Grounds provide a rich tapestry of locations for film producers and directors. During the Summer months, several film crews avail of the campus features and facilities to produce documentaries, advertisments and drama productions.
  
  
• Maynooth Castle is open to visitors for the Summer months.
  10.00 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. daily.
  Maynooth Castle is located at the main entrance to the College. The FitzGerald family who built the Castle around 1200 provided Stoyte House and the land on which Maynooth College was founded in 1795.
  

• 9th - 12th September 2010
  The Wild Geese trip to Berlin.
  Members of the faculty and staff of both NUIM and St Patrick's College are welcome on the Wild Geese trips.
  
  

• Living in union with Christ in today’s world:
  A Conference on John Calvin and Ignatius Loyola
  Friday 8th / Saturday 9th October, 2010
  John Calvin, French Protestant Reformer, and Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus, were for a brief time contemporaries in the Sorbonne.
  St Patrick’s College, Maynooth will host a conference that will bring the inheritance of both these figures into dialogue. Both Calvin and Loyola were Sorbonne men. Six of the founding fathers of St Patrick’s College, had been professors of the Sorbonne.

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• Ordinations to the Priesthood 2010:
  Six students from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth are being ordained to the priesthood in 2010. These ordinations are currently taking place in dioceses throughout the country, with one ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland.
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