Speaker: Dr Jan Graffius, Curator of Collections and Historic Libraries at Stonyhurst College
Date: 24 March, 2023
Time: 5.30pm - 6.30pm (GMT)
Venue: Pembroke College (Pichette Auditorium)
Overview: Since 2007, Dr Jan Graffius has been working in El Salvador conserving and displaying the powerful and poignant relics of Archbishop Óscar Romero, and of the Jesuits and their associates who were murdered in 1989. Her work, at times harrowing, has thrown up some extraordinary insights into the life and death of Romero, and many others who lost their lives to the death squads in that brutal civil war. Curatorial and conservation techniques have given these extraordinary artefacts a voice, and have revealed some hitherto unknown evidence of the last seconds of St Óscar Romero’s life.
This residential weekend retreat offers participants the opportunity to explore the human condition through your own life story, in the context of the Gospel and the Christian spiritual life, using mindfulness skills and contemplative Christian prayer.
Professor Tania Tetlow, President of Fordham University, will give a lecture at Campion Hall exploring how Catholic universities have shaped modern education and continue to balance faith, freedom, and public responsibility in uncertain times.
Join Dr Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Fr Christophere Ngolele SJ for the second Laudato Si’ lecture. Fr Christophere, a Jesuit priest and SOAS researcher, explores how the displacement of Congo’s autochthonous peoples reflects the “technocratic paradigm” and loss of “integral ecology” described in Laudato Si’.
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