Curiosities and news

Today we are not talking about the Jesuit brother, in the sense of a consecrated layman, but about blood brothers. Many Jesuits are not only sons but have sisters and… Read more

One would think that a Jesuit’s personal file would only contain official documents related to his religious life, i.e. letters and certificates. Documentary reorganisation, however, always holds many surprises. In… Read more

It can happen that a photograph can reveal much more than just the depicted subject. Through photographs, our researchers are also able to study clothing, the shape of certain liturgical… Read more

What is the relationship between the tax on celibacy and religious? Today’s in-depth study is dedicated to this issue. During the Fascist regime, single status could be a luxury, a… Read more

May and the summer months, we know, are the months of weddings. Why are we dedicating today’s column to this topic? One would not expect to find much on this… Read more

It was an arduous task to educate but, above all, to punish the scions of the nobility who attended the colleges of the Society of Jesus. The colleges, known as… Read more

Today, in both local and political elections, Jesuits, like all Italian citizens, go to the polls to cast their votes. This participation in voting has not always been so ‘taken… Read more

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