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This year, 15 October marks the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, or more commonly, the Holy Name

On 25 September 1861 Fr Alfred Weld (Rector of Beaumont Lodge and Director of Novices) met Fr Henry McCann, Procurator of the Province,...

This year, 20 May marks the 500th anniversary of the injury that Ignatius of Loyola received at Pamplona, sparking his conversion.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Father Leo O'Hea SJ (1881–1976).

This year, 26 April marks the 165th anniversary of the death of Fr Gerard Strickland SJ, a Jesuit army chaplain, during the Crimean War....

On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...

Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell, from which the exhibition's title is taken Veneration of the English and Welsh Martyrs of the...

In today’s ‘From the Archives’ blog post we revisit this post from January 2018 on the 155th anniversary of the Jesuit publication...

November marks 40 years since Pedro Arrupe SJ, the then Superior General of the Jesuits, set up the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in response

[Credit: Vatican Photo Service] This year, Sunday 25 October marked the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of...

This year, 1 September marks the 125th anniversary of the death of former Provincial of the English Province, Fr Robert Whitty SJ. The...

For many of us, the idea of a summer holiday will be just a memory because of the coronavirus pandemic - but since 1853 Jesuit students...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Between 10 July and 31 October 1940,the German Air Force waged an air...

This year, 25 March marks the 175th anniversary of the English Governor of Malta inviting the Society to open a College on the island. In...

On Friday 25 January 2020 the staff and pupils of St Ignatius College, Enfield attended a service at Westminster Cathedral to mark the...

2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the first full year of the Second World War. One event that took place early in this year was the...

The feast day of St Stanislaus Kostka SJ, patron saint of Jesuit novices, is 13 November. St Stanislaus was born in 1550, and faced great...

The closing of the 2018/9 academic year marks exactly 425 years since the creation of Stonyhurst College and its predecessors, and the...

This year 6 July marks the 400th anniversary of the date that the English Mission became a Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus. In this...

At the end of this month there will be four days of celebration in Rome for the 175th Anniversary of the foundation of the Apostleship of...