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Camilla Russell - Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy - Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age à paraître en décembre aux Harvard UP
#Otd 1896: 1st x-ray taken in Ireland in De La Salle College in #Waterford city, by Michael Francis O’Reilly/Brother Potamian (discovered by German Wilhelm Röntgen). Born in #Bailieborough Co #Cavan in 1847 in Famine so emigrated. Entered Jesuit Novitiate in Montreal, Canada.🏥
#Otd 1917: Death (70) in NYC of #Bailieborough Co #Cavan's Michael Francis O’Reilly/Brother Potamian. Took 1st x-ray in Ireland in De La Salle College, #Waterford city (discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen). Born 1847 in Famine so emigrated. Entered Jesuit Novitiate in Montreal, Canada.
2/2 Jesuit missionary with his tame lion. Because he has the power to overcome the savage heart! Painted in 1638 by Jusepe de Ribera, whose day is today.
Do we see influences in our work in a rear view mirror? Or is it simply that having been through art school the philosophy of art we develop embraces us and colours all our thinking? Are art schools a bit Jesuitical https://t.co/polxnmNROh written just before cancer diagnosis
St Paul Miki, a Patron of #Japan.
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He was a Jesuit seminarian born into a wealthy Japanese family and was executed during a persecution by crucifixion and pierced through his sides with spears on February 5, 1597 with 25 others (...)
3/3 Look at those flowers! By Daniel Seghers, Jesuit priest with talent.
Perky Lady Vanity by Hieronymus Janssens, pleased as punch to have A+ flowers painted around her by Daniel Seghers. Even if he was a Jesuit priest. It's his day today.
Today is the feast day of St Francis Xavier. Born in 1506, together with St Ignatius Loyola and others he founded the Jesuit order, and travelled to India, SE Asia and Japan spreading the good news of Christ #saintoftheday
St Francis Xavier 😇
Patron Saint of Missions
#FeastDay 3 December
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“Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.”
~ St. Francis Xavier
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Today we keep the memorial of St Francis Xavier, one of the first Jesuits and the great missionary to Asia.
He is one of my favourite saints and I always look forward to the reading at Vigils
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St. Edmund Campion 😇
Patron Saint of British Jesuits
#FeastDays 4 May #FortyMartyrs, 1 December
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The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617/1618 - painted for the Jesuit church in #Antwerp in the run up to Xavier's beatification in 1619
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at @JCBLibrary, attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #arthistory #earlymodern
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) was a Jesuit monk who received art training in Italy and traveled to China at the invitation of the emperor. His work achieved a unique East-west fusion. More: https://t.co/vBihVTLn1d #langshining #giuseppegastiglione
18th-c painting of Manchu emperor Qianlong hunting a Manchurian/Amur tiger, by Giuseppe Castiglione, a Jesuit missionary who failed to convert the emperor but became his favorite court painter. Just ordered this lovely stamp of the now endangered big cat: https://t.co/WH04tv9N7X