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What is the relationship between the tax on celibacy and religious? Today’s in-depth study is dedicated to this issue. During the Fascist regime, single status could be a luxury, a… Read more

May and the summer months, we know, are the months of weddings. Why are we dedicating today’s column to this topic? One would not expect to find much on this… Read more

It was an arduous task to educate but, above all, to punish the scions of the nobility who attended the colleges of the Society of Jesus. The colleges, known as… Read more

Today, in both local and political elections, Jesuits, like all Italian citizens, go to the polls to cast their votes. This participation in voting has not always been so ‘taken… Read more

Tidying up documentary collections one can come across many small surprises, such as special objects or letters. Some prelude to interesting stories, others do not offer enough information to carry… Read more

Let’s talk about some documents in the Historical Archives that seem to have been written in blood, let’s see why and whether this is really the case. Although these cases… Read more

The choice of a son to take the vows can be destabilising or it can be welcomed with great enthusiasm: it certainly arouses a series of emotions in the family… Read more

Life in the fortress of Fenestrelle, 50 years before the facts narrated by Alessandro Barbero in “I prigionieri dei Savoia” (“Prisoners of the Savoy”)

Although some Jesuits were doctors and many brothers were nurses, today we are not dealing with them but with lay doctors. In the papers in our archive, in fact, one… Read more

The stages of the religious path within the Society of Jesus include the study of theology and philosophy, with the attainment of the Licentiate, the Bachelor’s degree but also Masters… Read more

The documentation of the Province of Turin restores memories and faces to a people now confined to nature reserves and decimated by the colonisation of the lands of North America.… Read more

The documents stored in our archive do not all speak the same language, but mainly Italian to a lesser extent. In which and how many languages do the archive sources… Read more