17 events with tag "Jesuits"
1534
ID: 3538
August 15, 1534
Ignatius Loyola and six companions take vows at Montmartre - In underground chapel, vow poverty, chastity, and pilgrimage to Jerusalem - Beginning of Society of Jesus
ID: 3538
1537
ID: 3541
Pope Paul III confirms Jesuits informally - Ignatius's vision at La Storta: God the Father speaks: 'I will be favorable to you in Rome' - Christ appears: 'I want you to serve Me'
ID: 3541
1540
ID: 3542
September 27, 1540
Pope Paul III approves Society of Jesus with Bull 'Regimini Militantis' - Unique fourth vow of special obedience to Pope - Ignatius elected first Superior General - 'Go and set the world on fire'
ID: 3542
1548
ID: 3551
St. Ignatius has vision of coming Jesuit martyrs - 'I see God preparing a great harvest, but through much blood' - Spiritual Exercises officially approved
ID: 3551
1549
ID: 5500
August 15, 1549
St. Francis Xavier arrives in Japan, beginning Christian missionary work
ID: 5500
1551
ID: 3489
Jesuit Colleges established across Europe (1551-1556) - Messina, Palermo, Rome, German College - Free education attracts noble and merchant sons - Protestant observer: 'They steal our children's minds with sweetness'
ID: 3489
1556
ID: 3491
July 31, 1556
St. Ignatius dies - 1,000 Jesuits in 110 houses worldwide - Dies pronouncing Holy Name of Jesus - Leaves Church intellectual army to combat Protestant errors
ID: 3491
1562
ID: 3494
Jesuits arrive at French Court - Within decade, confessors to Catholic nobility - Huguenot complaint: 'They turn our own learning against us'
ID: 3494
1579
ID: 3506
Jesuit mission to England begins - Edmund Campion's underground ministry - 'The enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood'
ID: 3506
1580
ID: 3509
Peak Jesuit influence in Counter-Reformation (1580s-1590s) - Recover Poland, parts of Germany - Protestant alarm: 'They have stolen our method of education and improved it'
ID: 3509
1603
ID: 3447
Jesuit Superior General reports 13,000 members worldwide - 550 colleges and universities - Confessors to most Catholic princes
ID: 3447
1609
ID: 3452
Jesuit Relations from New France begin (1609-1614) - Detailed ethnographic accounts - Creates 'noble savage' as justification for cultural destruction
ID: 3452
1610
ID: 3453
Assassination of Henri IV of France - Jesuits blamed (unfairly) for regicide - Creates atmosphere of apocalyptic Protestant-Catholic struggle
ID: 3453
1614
ID: 3460
Confessio Fraternitatis published - 'We condemn the Pope and Mahomet' - Explicitly positions against Jesuits - Offers invisible brotherhood to counter visible Jesuits
ID: 3460
1622
ID: 3474
Jesuits recover Heidelberg Library - Frederick's hermetic paradise destroyed - 3,500 manuscripts sent to Vatican - 'Jesuits conquered through learning what they could not by force'
ID: 3474
1773
ID: 583
July 21, 1773
Pope Clement XIV suppresses Jesuits - many ex-Jesuits join Masonic lodges bringing organizational skills
ID: 583
1814
ID: 706
August 7, 1814
Pope Pius VII re-establishes Jesuit Order worldwide with Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum
ID: 706