Jorge words Terpinen

It is unavoidable to recall that the P. William Furlong, who tells us what happened on this day August 3, but in 1610, "the council being assembled, presented himself at the same P. Del Valle, President of the Society of Jesus and that more and more natural look of the city of santa fe, had come to found and choose convent. " Exactly 401 years the Jesuits had settled in the old city of Garay.

It also held that the presentation of the 5th Volume of the History of the College of the Immaculate Conception takes place in this museum, because as we also reported the historian: "In 1863 he worked in the oldest now existing, or the bedroom General Lopez on the street and it starts from the angle formed by the transept of the church, and beneath this room formed a study room "is that we are in the areas built in 1863, the last vestiges of the original building school. I can only conclude then, the date and place, which have their own historical and spiritual charge, that speaks of the value of a past shaped by the Society of Jesus and a society committed because, as Huizinga says: "History is the spirit in which a culture is accountable for its past. "

Even the very title of the book points us towards the goal of Furlong, who is not only the history of the college of the immaculate city of Santa Fe, but also, and so more letter clarifies the often-irradiation, cultural spiritual and social. We think that with this term, Radiate, 'which is the ability of a body to emit light, heat or any form of energy in all directions-is with which she exemplified the size of the shares of the company through this school not only in local but its scope and influence reached the most distant provinces, reaching the American character, glory, as it clarifies that the historian does not share the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires, which grew from a College of Buenos Aires.

Know the 5 th volume of the History of the College is putting them in contact with something that we exemplify how the keystone of the vault as it is essential to a proper understanding of the work but also is reframing, and you can not avoid selecting and reorder based on the readings of the earlier volumes, all the contents poured into the text. It is without doubt the completion of this great vision of the College not only the meaning but reaching for the social set in Santa Fe historical continuity, local and regional levels.

But it is my intention to briefly condense the volume, although the enormous value, quiet and meticulous investigation that led forward with a fervor that does not recognize lameness, as also pointed out that was not afraid to correct mistakes and take in the discipline of the truth.

Reading this history enables countless recover data that exists on each page, sort of huge and priceless family archive, and it is through them that we can rebuild step by step, not only the history of the school but also the society that accompanied in spiritual, material, intellectual, as well as his way of life, value systems and traditions, heritage belongs to us and that its transmission is up to us.

We know the evolution of your building that manifests despite its renovation, the primordial space from where it provided education for practical life and spiritual life. In its continuing political crisis traces the evolution of Europe and America and the connotations of the various strands of political, ecclesiastical and cultural but also without a doubt was the center of an educational outreach to citizens who forged constantly, making it the ideal example of shared.

Nearly half a century has passed since the P. Guillermo Furlong Cardiff wrote the last pages of this history, therefore it is incomplete, because this school is a living organism and committed to not understand the past as crystallized, but as the quarry from which to extract the elements and energy to continue, because values ​​its past, forge spirit and believes that history is built day by day perhaps, because they assume as its own the concept of Huizinga: "History is the spiritual in a culture that is accountable for its past."

Jorge Terpinen