On November 17, from 12-1pm, Boston College hosts an online discussion with Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., the Under Secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The event, which is free and open to the public, is entitled: “Refugees and Migrants: Paradoxes in the Age of […]
In 1551, Urbano Fernandes, the newly appointed rector of the scholasticate at Coimbra and the successor there of Simão Rodrigues, had proposed a number of questions having to do with the performance of his office. In this letter, Juan Alfonso de Polanco writes on Ignatius’s behalf and sends his understanding of Ignatius’s mind on the
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While still a scholastic, Miguel Ochoa gained renown as a healer. Polanco himself at one time experienced Ochoa’s help. Because of the crowds who flocked to him, St. Ignatius had him ordained early so that he could hear their confessions. Because Miguel’s own health was fragile, Ignatius stationed him at the salubrious resort town of
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In 1554, the recently founded college in Salamanca included two priests and fourteen scholastics who were studying theology, but who were also zealously engaged in other works, such as visiting hospitals, preaching, and teaching catechism. Writing to Bartolomé Hernández, the new rector of the college there, Ignatius endorses his decision to have the Jesuit scholastics
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The Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomy Society awarded the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Ileana Chinnici for her book Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist. Chinnici published her book — the first English-language, full-length biography of Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) — as part of the Jesuit Studies Book
On November 1, the Lumen Christi Institute hosts a virtual lecture by Georgetown’s John O’Malley, SJ: “Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today.” The event is free and open to the public. Coinciding with the Feast of All Saints, O’Malley’s presentation will argue that “few Christian practices are as ancient and widely popular
On October 15 and 16, the Université de Bretagne-Sud hosts a virtual conference examining missionaries of 16th to the 19th centuries. Hélène Vu Thanh, of the Université de Bretagne-Sud, is the conference organizer. “Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles)” [Connecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empire, 16th-19th c.] features fourteen presentations over the two-day
The following letter to Filippo Leerno, the rector of the Jesuit college at Modena, was written on behalf of Ignatius by Juan Alfonso de Polanco. It deals with day-to-day matters in the life of the Society, first with an internal matter of governance, and then with real estate and with several of the apostolates of
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies opens its fifth season of virtual Jesuit Studies Cafés on September 17 with a presentation on a new translation of Jouvancy’s The Way to Learn and the Way to Teach. The text was recently published by Jesuit Sources. Later presentations examine the scientific activities of the Jesuits in the Portuguese Assistancy, the
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On September 18, the Royal Historical Society hosts a virtual lecture by Simon Ditchfield, professor of history and director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York. Ditchfield’s remarks are entitled “Baroque around the clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history.” According to
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