Manresa Gallery

03/21/2018

Coming soon to Manresa Gallery - Ignite! by Santos Bregaña

02/26/2018

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, February 27th for a closing reception and talk by exhibition curator and Ricci Institute Director Antoni Ucerler, SJ on our current exhibition, “The Samurai & The Cross.” Talk at 5pm in Fromm Hall (just north of the church), reception to follow at 6pm in the gallery.

Image: Film still, Martin Scorsese, “Silence,” 2016. Courtesy Martin Scorsese.

01/29/2018

“The Samurai & the Cross” will run through March 10th. Open 1-5pm Tuesday-Friday, and Sunday’s between Masses.

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Image: “Teabowl (or baptismal bowl),” Oribe ware 織部焼, with Christian motif. Black glazing with a large white cross. Japan, 17th cent.? Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco. Manresa Gallery, San Francisco.

12/15/2017

Check out some installation shots from our new exhibition, "The Samurai & the Cross"!

Manresa is viewable from the glass doors,
during church hours, 8am to 5pm.

12/15/2017

Installation: The Samurai & the Cross, Manresa Gallery, San Francisco, December 2017.

The USF Ricci Institute presents a new exhibit of its Japanese and Chinese treasures at the Manresa Gallery of St. Ignatius Church, from December 3, 2017 to March 6, 2018.

"The Samurai & the Cross: Life and Death in Christian Japan, 1549-1650", begins with the arrival of Jesuit missionary, Francis Xavier (1491–1552) in Japan in 1549 in the midst of the “Warring States”—a turbulent period of civil war that ended in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) unified the country. This exhibit displays rare historical artifacts and documents recently acquired by the USF Ricci Institute that tell the story of Japan’s initial encounter with Christianity, the crisis that culminated in its prohibition in 1614, the subsequent decades of persecution, and the survival of the “hidden Christians” who continued to practice their faith in secret for over two centuries. It also reveals how, despite the prohibition, Christian books composed and printed by the Jesuits in China were imported into Japan both legally and illegally in the 17th and 18th centuries. These books arrived aboard the ships of Chinese merchants engaged in trade at the international port of Nagasaki—which remained an important bridge to the world beyond the shores of Japan. This unique story of faith and resilience was made known to a wider audience last year with the release of Martin Scorsese’s film, Silence, based on the 1966 novel by Japanese Catholic writer, Shusaku Endo (1923-96).

For more information, please visit www.manresagallery.org

11/08/2017

Join us on Sunday for a mimosa reception to celebrate the closing of . Manresa Gallery inside Saint Ignatius Church, 12-2 pm