Curiosities and news

Tidying up documentary collections one can come across many small surprises, such as special objects or letters. Some prelude to interesting stories, others do not offer enough information to carry… Read more

Let’s talk about some documents in the Historical Archives that seem to have been written in blood, let’s see why and whether this is really the case. Although these cases… Read more

The choice of a son to take the vows can be destabilising or it can be welcomed with great enthusiasm: it certainly arouses a series of emotions in the family… Read more

Life in the fortress of Fenestrelle, 50 years before the facts narrated by Alessandro Barbero in “I prigionieri dei Savoia” (“Prisoners of the Savoy”)

Although some Jesuits were doctors and many brothers were nurses, today we are not dealing with them but with lay doctors. In the papers in our archive, in fact, one… Read more

The stages of the religious path within the Society of Jesus include the study of theology and philosophy, with the attainment of the Licentiate, the Bachelor’s degree but also Masters… Read more

The documentation of the Province of Turin restores memories and faces to a people now confined to nature reserves and decimated by the colonisation of the lands of North America.… Read more

The documents stored in our archive do not all speak the same language, but mainly Italian to a lesser extent. In which and how many languages do the archive sources… Read more

Entry into the novitiate, though a personal choice free from any compulsion, did in the past require the full consent of each candidate’s parents. In the personal files of Jesuits,… Read more

As we approach the end of the year, today’s column is dedicated precisely to 31 December, and to do so we open the Conegliano folder and relive the celebrations organised… Read more

Everyday life, apostolate, commitments, fathers going and fathers coming, menu list, there is a great deal of information in the diaries of the house, sometimes even the weather. Let’s find… Read more

One of the first rules one learns when consulting the Society’s historical catalogues is that a Jesuit’s name cannot suddenly disappear from a catalogue, from one year to the next,… Read more