Curiosities and news

Among the 3,005 papers that make up the series of Jesuits that belonged to the Roman Province between 1814 and 1978, there is also that of one of the members… Read more

It is a manuscript donated by the monks of Grottaferrata Abbey to the Jesuits of the novitiate in Castel Gandolfo in August 1890: ‘Spiritual songs with which the voice of… Read more

In our historical archive there is a lock of the hair of Fr. Carlo Odescalchi, duly closed in a small square bearing the seal in sealing wax with the symbol… Read more

In the collective imagination, the historical archives preserve only paper material, mainly attributable to letters, registers, documents; however, each historical archive keeps, inevitably, even objects, relics, artifacts that had belonged… Read more

Today we have the opportunity to know how the novices of the Society live by reading, for example, the blog of the novices of Genoa or consulting the site of… Read more

Fr. Carlo Massaruti and the gift of Pope Pius X

In every Jesuit residence, novitiate or retreat house, certain people – lay people or Jesuits – are responsible, today as in the past, for the provision of food and the… Read more

The Easter day of 1858 marked the end of the Jesuit stay in Velletri. For the disappearance of the painting of the Madonna delle Grazie and the revolt against the… Read more

From the 1915 – 1916 school year, the little Ettore Majorana, almost ten years old, began attending fourth grade at the College. On 26 March a documentary on the great… Read more

How many generations of Italian classical high school students have been confronted with the Rocci Dictionary of the Greek Language? A blessing and a curse for students, but also an… Read more