Looking back. Short stories from the Archives

30/05/2024

The Night of the Archives 2024

On 7th June 2024, the ninth edition of La Notte degli Archivi will take place, involving archives all over Italy. The Archives of the Generalate will participate in the event with a video entitled ‘Mother Dominica du Sacré-Cœur Jacquart (Luc Darmès) Composer - A lifelong passion’.

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29/04/2024

Our Lady of Consolation

From Beaugency to Rome: a journey through documents.

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17/10/2023

Celebrating St Ursula – 21 October

Who is Saint Ursula? Why did Angela Merici choose St Ursula?

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10/10/2023

Happy centenary Province of England!

1923 - 2023

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27/09/2023

World War II - Jews hiding in religious institutes in Rome

Interview for the ORF

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12/06/2023

Archivissima 2023 #CarnetdeVoyage

Souvenirs des Missions - Mission of the Ursulines of the Roman Union in Siam

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21/10/2022

The eleven Martyrs of Valenciennes

The Martyrs of Valenciennes was a group of eleven nuns from the Ursuline monastery who were guillotined by the revolutionaries in October 1794.

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27/09/2022

Archives: Bridging the gap

At the 9th Annual Conference of the International Council on Archives (ICA), held in Rome, Italy from 19th to 23rd September, Emanuela Lauro, the archivist of the Generalate Archives, participated with a poster.

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16/09/2022

ICA Roma 2022 - «AND LEAD A NEW LIFE». Ursuline Missionaries

Project for a virtual exhibition

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15/08/2022

House of St. Angela Merici – history in pictures

In the small town of Desenzano in Italy, the family house of St. Angela Merici, ‘Le Grezze’, still stands.

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05/07/2022

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Fondi

Some research on the origins of the painting of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in the parish church of Fondi.

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31/05/2022

The bell of the Generalate

Did you know that the bell of the Generalate is named Françoise?

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11/04/2022

The paintings of the Generalate Chapel

Between 1936 and 1937, the Roman painter Mario Antonio Barberis decorated the Chapel of the Generalate of the Ursulines of the Roman Union in Rome dedicated to Christ the King.

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