Rebecca Somerset
New Year Hopes
At this time of year, we often take time to reflect on the year just gone and set goals for the year ahead. Each of the Archives team...
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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Rebecca Somerset
Mar 28, 20216 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...
Mary Allen
Mar 1, 20214 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
Jan 4, 20214 min read
A year in blog posts
2020 was, to say the least, a strange year for everybody, thanks to the global pandemic. For the British Jesuit Archives it meant closing...
Mary Allen
Nov 23, 20204 min read
ArchI’ve Opened: How the Jesuits in Britain Archives are striving to be more accessible
Heythrop, Oxfordshire, 1960s. From our recently digitised negative collection Since 2015, the British Jesuit Archives have held an annual...
Mary Allen
Oct 26, 20204 min read
History of the Martyrs’ Cause on the 50th anniversary of the Forty Martyrs’ Canonisation
[Credit: Vatican Photo Service] This year, Sunday 25 October marked the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of...
Mary Allen
Feb 19, 20184 min read
Robert Southwell's Hundred Meditations of the Love of God
St Robert Southwell SJ (1561-1595), whose feast day is celebrated 21 February, is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonised...
Mary Allen
Oct 23, 20164 min read
On the Feast of the Six Welsh Martyrs
On 25 October 1970, Pope Paul VI canonized 40 martyrs of the English Reformation. Among those were 6 welsh priests, religious and lay...
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