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
Curiosities and news
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On the feast of the Assumption of 15 August, we remember a Congregation that is no longer active, less known than the Marian Congregations or the numerous confraternities present in… Read more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
The First World War told through archive documents
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Versailles peace treaty, in this edition of the column we recall the First World War as recounted in… Read more
The education of a prince: Francesco di Borbone – Count of Trapani – at the Collegio dei nobili in Rome
We have already seen that future presidents, scientists and leading figures of 19th and 20th century society from different social and geographical backgrounds studied in Jesuit schools. Today our column… Read more
A Royal Wedding in the Gesù Church in Rome
Royal weddings, recent chronicles prove, are always events that attract media attention, the last one was celebrated in England, in Windsor Castle. Our archive could hardly give an account of… Read more
Father Pietro Pirri, a Jesuit between study and spirituality
An in-depth look at Father Pirri, on the occasion of the conference to be held on 10 May at the Sala Assunta of the Residenza del Gesù in Rome to… Read more
The uniform of boarders: not just a question of style
In the Colleges of the Society of Jesus, today as in the past, it was customary to have a uniform for all boarders, an element that avoided the use of… Read more
Carlo Emanuele Di Savoia – From the Crown of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Novitiate of S. Andrea al Quirinale.
Scholars, teachers, sometimes so young as to be only students… there are many different ‘careers’ or assignments undertaken by Jesuits before entering the Society, one of them was even a… Read more