News in Jesuit Studies
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The Jesuits in Britain Archives and the Stonyhurst College Collections have collaborated to host a new online exhibition: “‘How Bleedeth Burning Love’: Relics of the Forty Martyrs.”
The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the canonization of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Relics, manuscripts, and artifacts help to illustrate to the faith stories of the martyrs from the the 16th and 17th centuries.
The exhibition is available at https://www.jesuitcollections.org.uk/exhibition.
Loyola University Chicago commemorates its sesquicentennial with online lectures “with other great minds to reflect and address urgent issues of our time.” The Loyola 150 Scholar Series is open to the public. A full schedule is available at https://www.luc.edu/150/scholars/.
Of particular note is the March 22 The John F. Callahan Lecture: “‘urbs procul est, urbs magna, Chicago’: Latin Drama, Jesuit Education, and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair” by Laura Gawlinski, associate professor and chair at department of classical studies, Loyola University Chicago, and Christopher Polt, assistant professor of classical studies at Boston College.
According to the lecture’s summary, Gawlinski and Polt will consider the central role that Latin performances assumed in Jesuit education. “In the late 19th century,” the summary continues, these performances “took on complex new significance as Jesuit schools in the U.S. sparked renewed interest in their production. This talk explores how Jesuit educators saw the theatrical performance in Latin as a means not only of student formation but also of self-promotion and self-defense during a turbulent period in U.S. higher education and Catholic immigration history.”
This Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco has released a documentary film, “Faith and Martyrdom: Stories from New France and East Asia,” available for free public streaming at Jesuits.org.
The film compares the stories of faith and martyrdom of Jesuits and their converts in New France (stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico) to those from the East Asia missions, particularly in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
The film seeks to answer such questions as: How was the Christian faith transmitted to these peoples across the world? How did they receive it and what key role did the local converts play in the work of evangelization and inculturation? What led to their acceptance by some and rejection by others?