The documentation regarding 4,300 people -- including 3,600 of whom are named -- given refuge by women's and men's religious congregations was found in the archives of the Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, also known as the Biblicum. The registry was
When a community of religious sisters in 17th-century England established their convent, they kept their new home a secret: It was illegal to be Catholic. Today, the “Bar Convent” is still open — and welcomes visitors from far and wide as the