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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.


160th Anniversary: The Jesuits Take Possession of Manresa House, Roehampton
On 25 September 1861 Fr Alfred Weld (Rector of Beaumont Lodge and Director of Novices) met Fr Henry McCann, Procurator of the Province,...
Mary Allen
Sep 16, 20212 min read


Celebrating the Ignatian Year
This year, 20 May marks the 500th anniversary of the injury that Ignatius of Loyola received at Pamplona, sparking his conversion.
Mary Allen
May 23, 20214 min read


Fr Leo O'Hea SJ
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Father Leo O'Hea SJ (1881–1976).
Mary Allen
May 9, 20214 min read


Gerard Strickland & Chaplains in the Crimean War
This year, 26 April marks the 165th anniversary of the death of Fr Gerard Strickland SJ, a Jesuit army chaplain, during the Crimean War....
Mary Allen
Apr 25, 20213 min read

Reflections on creating our Relic Exhibition
On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...
Rebecca Somerset
Mar 28, 20216 min read

How Bleedeth Burning Love: A history of the Martyrs’ Cause
Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell, from which the exhibition's title is taken Veneration of the English and Welsh Martyrs of the...
Mary Allen
Mar 1, 20214 min read


Letters and Notices
In today’s ‘From the Archives’ blog post we revisit this post from January 2018 on the 155th anniversary of the Jesuit publication...
Mary Allen
Feb 1, 20215 min read


Early history of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Britain
November marks 40 years since Pedro Arrupe SJ, the then Superior General of the Jesuits, set up the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in response
Rebecca Somerset
Nov 9, 20203 min read
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