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New Catholic church to be built near site of historic battlefield
A Catholic church is to be built at Culloden, near the battlefield where the hopes of the Catholic House of Stuart for a restoration to the British throne died 261 years ago.The new place of worship will be about a mile from the site of the 1746 battle which ended in defeat for the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and his Jacobite army.
Most of the Highland Clans on the Jacobite side were Catholic or Episcopalian, while the majority of the larger number of Scots on the Hanoverian government side were Presbyterians.
The new building will be the first Catholic church built in Inverness since St Ninian's in 1959. It will also end a 30-year wait by the local congregation for their own premises.
Full story at The Scotsman.
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