Events from 1534

St. Angela Merici founds Ursulines - first teaching order of women - 'Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family'

Beginning of English Reformation creates philosophical crisis - Henry VIII's break with Rome shatters unified Christian worldview - Sets stage for individual reason as new authority

Ignatius Loyola and six companions take vows at Montmartre - In underground chapel, vow poverty, chastity, and pilgrimage to Jerusalem - Beginning of Society of Jesus