Iglesia de San Luis de los Franceses

This guide to the Iglesia de San Luis de los Franceses in Seville turns on a sealed envelope stamped with the king's wax, marked not to be opened until midnight on April 1st, 1767, while the young Jesuits sleeping beneath its painted dome had no idea a royal minister had spent the month arranging their arrest. You'll hear how soldiers moved on every Jesuit house in Spain at dawn, and what happened to the novices who had lived in this building for only thirty-six years before that morning. It also traces the crypt below, where reliquaries still hold the bones of men who never saw it coming.