One of the finest professors I ever had was a quiet, gentle Jesuit priest, whom we called: "Honest Abe Ryan." His knowledge of history was incredible. In his long years of study he had read most of ...

The aging musical score wasn’t easy to read. It was a copy of a copy of a Latin Mass by 18th-century composer Domenico Zipoli that had crossed the Atlantic and most of South America, only to be ...

CONCEPCION, Bolivia — The first attempt to set up a Jesuit settlement here amid the tropical expanses of what is now eastern Bolivia didn’t go very well. Father Lucas Caballero, the founder of this ...

"This is a subtle, intelligent, and deeply learned recasting of a whole range of issues central to art history: the place of the Baroque in the construction of modern art histories; the peculiar ...

This new book by Professor Denis De Lucca, volume 73 in the peer-reviewed Brill series on the History of Warfare, deals with the forgotten contribution of the Jesuits, often known as the Society of ...

When Pope Francis enters the Jesuit church here July 7 for a moment of private prayer, he will step into an architectural gem where trees once grew up through the floor. The Iglesia de la Compania—the ...

Denis De Lucca: Jesuits And Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture in the Baroque Age, Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden and Boston, 2012. This new book, volume 73 in ...

With the Bible in one hand and a flute in the other, Jesuit missionaries played a unique role in bringing not only Roman Catholicism to South America but also baroque music. And in the nearly 250 ...

As part of the monthly series of cultural talks organised by Din l-Art Ħelwa, Dennis De Lucca will be delivering a talk entitled ‘Baroque Valletta: A 17th-Century Jesuit Course in Military ...