Bollandists in the Vault of St Nicholas

A question to identify some ancient relics brought two of us in the vault of a bank in Brussels. There, St Nicholas Church, in the same town, keeps its most valued treasures: relics of course, but also golden chalices, silver censers, and the bejeweled crowns that...

Sts Paul Miki and Companions – 6 February

“Blending in” is one way to translate inculturation, the missionary strategy of the Jesuits. It enabled them to move just as efficacious in the Chinese emperor’s Forbidden City as in the French king’s palace at Versailles. But what about “defacing”? To enter the...