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Mary Allen

Sep 16, 20212 min read

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,...

Lucy Vinten

Nov 18, 20196 min read

A History of the Jesuit Noviceship

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...

Mihaela Repina

Nov 24, 20141 min read

The Cake that Changed the Temple at Manresa, Roehampton

How a cake changed a temple