Mary Allen
Festive Highlights
Some festive favourites from the British Jesuit Archives. Br Thomas Moore's Christmas pudding recipe (ref. SJ/29/6) In the 1930s, Novices...
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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Alex Van Goethem
- Mar 16, 2020
- 4 min
Celebrating Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday falls on 22nd March this year. Historically Mothering Sunday has been celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, in the...
Alex Van Goethem
- Jun 3, 2019
- 3 min
Fr Cyril Martindale SJ
One of the Archive’s most recently completed cataloguing projects is the collection of personal papers of one of the Society’s most...
Alex Van Goethem
- Mar 11, 2019
- 2 min
Celebrations of St Aloysius Gonzaga
With the Jubilee year for the 450th anniversary of the birth of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga coming toa close on March 9, 2019 we decided to...
Mary Allen
- Jul 2, 2018
- 3 min
On the Anniversary of Fr Robert Henry Joseph Steuart SJ
This year, 9 July marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Fr Robert Henry Joseph Steuart SJ. According to his obituary in Letters and...
Mary Allen
- May 21, 2018
- 4 min
St Aloysius' Church, Oxford
145 years ago, on the 20th of May 1873, Oscar Wilde and a companion were among a large crowd that watched as Dr William Bernard...
Mary Allen
- Apr 23, 2018
- 5 min
Celebrating Jesuit Writers
On 23 April 1995, UNESCO proclaimed the first World Book and Copyright Day. For world literature, this is a symbolic date: it is the day...
Sally Kent
- Oct 9, 2017
- 4 min
Jesuits and the Lost Art of Letter Writing
The Jesuits in Britain Archives is full of letters – personal correspondence, circulars, letters to and from Fr Provincial and Fr...
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