What is happening here every Saturday and Sunday? ⤵️ Enter the Church of the Gesù at 6PM (or at 5:30PM on Saturday and Sunday from end of September).. Here you will find the fabulous Macchina Barocca (Baroque Machine)! 🤩 What is it? It was a way of evangelizing through spectacular and sensational theatrical shows People entering this church would enter a sort of ecstatic state and feel transported into the story and faith of St Ignatius A little bit of context.. 🔸The Church of the Gesù (Chiesa del Gesù, in Italian) is the mother church of the Jesuit order, whose founder was Ignazio di Loyola 🔸The Jesuits have always been very successful at evangelizing, because of their great communications skills. They knew how to get to the hearts of the people. And here you can have an idea of that 😊 🔸This church that we see today was built in the 1600s. After the period of the Counter Reformation (when people got away from the Church of Rome due to scandals and loss of trust) the Church of R...