Christmas Gifts
If today, for employees and workers, we speak of thirteenth month pay, Christmas bonuses and other financial considerations typical of the month of December, we can also identify some forms… Read more
Curiosities and news
The age-old issue of heating: complaints in the Brescia area.
The issue of heating in a community is a theme that recurs several times in the diaries of a home or boarding school, arousing various reactions… some of them quite… Read more
The Missions of the Former Provinces: not always exotic places
The former provinces, which merged into the Province of Italy in 1978, were responsible for several missions. Even in previous centuries, both the Society and other religious orders had missions,… Read more
P. Nicola Angelini: writer of epigraphs
On the occasion of 2 November, the feast of the dead, we dedicate an in-depth look at tomb epigraphs.
The Pious Union against Blasphemy and Turpiloquy
In Rome, in the modern age, several Confraternities were responsible for praying for sinners, for souls in purgatory, for children who had died prematurely, for those who had suffered a… Read more
Corporal and Purification of the Venerable Fr Giuseppe Picco
The affection and esteem reserved for the Jesuit by his contemporaries contributed to the birth of a magazine ‘Friends of Fr Picco’, which over time has updated its readers on… Read more
P. Riccardo Friedl: between documents and personal objects
Our archive today once again offers us objects, owned by a Jesuit, that have survived a century of history and come down to us. In fact, the fonds of the… Read more
Dressing a Jesuit: clothes and wardrobe composition
The dress of the Jesuits, not exempt from rules, changed over the centuries and the Society always drew up rules for the clothing and composition of the wardrobe at home.
The Congregation of the Immaculate in the Greek College in Rome
On the feast of the Assumption of 15 August, we remember a Congregation that is no longer active, less known than the Marian Congregations or the numerous confraternities present in… Read more
The Benefactors of the Company in the Roman Province
The Society of Jesus, like many religious orders, has had many benefactors since the time of Ignatius of Loyola, some able to endow the Society with real estate or to… Read more
The S. Giuseppe Oratory in Florence – The boys of Via Cirillo
In Florence, in an area, today, not far from the city centre where there are almost exclusively blocks of flats, many people remember that in the place of one of… Read more
A weekly menu: what did a Jesuit eat in the 19th century?
Let us virtually enter the Jesuit refectory today by reading an ‘approved Leviticus’ or a real weekly menu dispensed to homes, in this case from the Collegio Romano, a bit… Read more