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A journey through the headquarters of the novitiate of the Veneto-Milan Province, between Lonigo, Soresina and Portorè, some of the cities where the probation house was moved between the end… Read more

Tortured, pierced and mutilated. No, today we are not talking about the Jesuit martyrs, but about archive documents and the main damage that historical documentation can suffer.

We are almost at the end of the school year, time for report cards, promotions and failures. Let us see what the reasons could be for being expelled from one… Read more

There are a number of television programmes that reintroduce the subject of table etiquette or the so-called art of knowing how to receive. Why stop at what we hear on… Read more

On several occasions some residences of the Society of Jesus underwent transformations, often as a result of expropriation and forfeiture by the Old Italian States after 1773 or by the… Read more

How many of us participated in verb or multiplication table competitions at school? In the boarding schools of the Society of Jesus, there were no candies up for grabs or… Read more

Lent, now drawing to a close, usually coincides – for the religious – with a period of abstention from sweets, meat and generally fatty foods, so at least the common… Read more

The Word communicated through words: speeches, homilies and notes for spiritual exercises are the legacy of the work of many Jesuit fathers, appreciated preachers.

At Christmas, Carnival and Easter, there are many people who make and give homemade liqueurs, and one is always looking for inspiration for different recipes. Where better to look for… Read more

A year after the first ascertained cases of Covid 19 in northern Italy and then in the rest of the Peninsula, today’s column recounts some of the epidemics that the… Read more

During the nineteenth century and beyond the first half of the twentieth century, so-called ‘missionary exhibitions’ were widespread. They were often the only opportunity for the faithful to see objects… Read more

Cyclically, for some years now, the controversy about compulsory vaccines has held sway in public opinion, reinforced in times of Covid – 19. Many claim that vaccines were never compulsory… Read more