CHURCH OF JESUS AT CASA PROFESSA PALERMO

Exalted or seen as smoke in the eyes: our five hundred years long history reaches our days tinged with an aura of mystery. Over the centuries, we have given a significant impulse to the evolution of the different social contexts in the world in terms of justice, culture and human dignity. Our action, always mediated by reflection and prayer, sometimes met with the favor of the powerful, at other times it aroused aversion until it was suppressed during the colonial era. Upon, even today, the imagination indulges itself. For some we appear as a Masonic sect, for others, we are the armed wing of the Church, for others, we are infiltrated, secret agents. Literature has often enjoyed painting us with imaginative traits. Beyond this, both supporters and detractors recognize that when Jesuits fit into the history of humanity they leave an effective mark