The Pontifical Scots College, Rome, has recently opened a new lecture room dedicated to a former Cardinal Protector of the College, Henry Benedict Stuart, Duke of York. His portrait and coat of arms will decorate the room. Here is a version of his arms painted by Max Marnau. While there are other superb versions by Marco Foppoli and Andrew Jamieson, they both chose to use the English form of the royal arms.
As part of their training for the priesthood, the Scottish seminarians now have an annual Mass in the Cripta Borghese under the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, to this day the burial place of the Borghese family, and the tomb of the Scots College's founder, Pope Clement VIII Aldobrandini, whose arms, as they appear on the ceiling of San Giovanni in Laterano are given below:
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