Father Giacomo Gardin, prisoner in Albania
Our column today tells the story of Fr Giacomo Gardin: a Jesuit who was prisoner in Albania between 1945 and 1955. The story of Giacomo Gardin SJ is one of… Read more
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Jesuit archivists of the Roman Province
Who took care of the archival papers of the Jesuit provinces in the past? Who is responsible for the preservation of this great heritage? Today begins a series of episodes… Read more
The Balkans: Jesuits and residences on the other side of the Mediterranean
Our Archive preserve many testimonies of residences and colleges located in the Balkans, from Croatia to Greece. How is this possible? The borders of the Provinces The boundaries of the… Read more
A church for the Apostleship of Prayer
The church we see in the photograph and whose magnificence we can sense, does not actually exist and has never existed. Today’s column tells the story of an idea, or… Read more
Jesuits in Italy during the political turbulence of 1848
What happened to the Jesuits in 1848 in Sardinia, Genoa and the cities of the Papal States? These are just some of the possible case studies that can be investigated… Read more
Architect Giulio Pediconi, the Massimo and a project for the Vatican Art Gallery
During the reorganisation of the photographic series of the Istituto Massimo in Rome, among the photos of class groups, outings, Communions, professors and Jesuits, we also found several photographs of… Read more
The Institute of the Immaculate Conception of the Bigi friars in Rome
The children you see in the photo are not students at a Jesuit college, nor do they attend an oratory or a religious school run by Jesuits. Who are they?… Read more
The Jesuit Oath
When we search for information online about the Jesuit oath, we find descriptions of obscure and secret rituals, made up of gestures, often macabre formulas with references to violent acts… Read more
Christmas letters from the children of Cuglieri
What did a Sardinian child ask for himself and his family in the mid 20th century? Today we go back in time to 1958, to Cuglieri, Sardinia, where the Society… Read more
Images of war in Ukraine in the past century
Today, many cities in Ukraine are in the news due to the ongoing conflict and the drama of war refugees. None of the ancient Italian provinces of the Society had… Read more
Plates, trays and crockery: from the college to the Archives
What are plates and trays doing in our compacts? Our Archives do not only store documents; often the folders contain objects that have an archival link with the rest of… Read more
Jesuit burials
The fate of Jesuit remains has not always been the same since the Society was born. Some rest in crypts, some in ossuaries, some in cemeteries. Let us look at… Read more