Fr. Carlo Odescalchi. The relic of the Servant of God
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
Curiosities and news
The unusable key
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
Life as a Jesuit novice
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
The Pope’s handkerchief
Fr. Carlo Massaruti and the gift of Pope Pius X
Guidelines for the cook
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 Jesuits in Velletri: Easter, the riot and the robber Cencio Vendetta
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
Ettore Majorana, alumnus of Massimo Institute
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
Lorenzo Rocci, author of the Greek dictionary
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