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24 unusual facts about Society of Jesus


1624 in Norway

28 February – A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country, with death penalty as a consequence for offenders.

Anne de Xainctonge

She grew up near a Jesuit college and was thus inspired at an early age with the idea of forming an uncloistered school for women, working within a Jesuit framework.

Campion College, Jamaica

On 1960-01-05, with one hundred and one first form students and a faculty of four Jesuit Fathers, the new school opened its doors and the first lessons were given that day in a pavilion and in classrooms borrowed from Campion Hall Preparatory School.

Campion College, Regina

Campion College, Regina, Saskatchewan, is a Roman Catholic, university college federated with the University of Regina and affiliated with the Jesuits (Society of Jesus).

Colegio San Pedro Claver

The high school is run by the Jesuits and students and graduates of the school are known as Claverianos

Garcia II of Kongo

Both brothers attended the Jesuit college at São Salvador (modern M'banza-Kongo) soon after it was opened in 1620 where they studied with the Jesuit priest João de Paiva.

George Moriarty

Despite his combative field persona Moriarty was quite congenial off the field, maintaining close friendships with Jesuit priests at the College of the Holy Cross in central Massachusetts.

Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte

He was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East in 1848, the son of Joseph-Édouard Turcotte and Flore Buteau, and was educated at the Jesuit-run Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal and the Séminaire Saint-Joseph in Trois-Rivières.

Ideology of the SS

Himmler used the Jesuits as the model for the SS, since he found they had the core element absolute obedience and the cult of the organisation.

Jacques Courtois

In Florence he entered the Society of Jesus, taking the habit in Rome in 1655; it was calumniously rumoured that he adopted this course in order to escape punishment for having poisoned his wife.

Joseph-Octave Plessis

Efforts were made to appropriate the property of the Jesuits and of the Seminary of Montreal to the uses of the state, to organize an exclusively Protestant system of public instruction, and to give a power of veto on the nomination of priests and the erection of parishes to the English crown.

Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium

In 2010, after the end of the naming agreement with the local electric utility, Tucson Electric Power, the stadium was renamed after Eusebio Kino, the Jesuit missionary who first explored southern Arizona in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Lucien Matte

Lucien Matte (1907–1975) was a Jesuit priest and educator.

Regis College, Toronto

Regis College is a theological college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1930 and affiliated with the Society of Jesus.

Reinhard Sorge

Rev. B. O'Brien, S.J., "From Nietzsche to Christ: Reinhard Johannes Sorge," Irish Monthly, December 1932, pages 713-722.

Royden B. Davis

Ordained to the priesthood on June 21, 1959, by Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough, he pronounced his final vows in the Society of Jesus on February 2, 1967.

St. Paul's Church, Malacca

The chapel was deeded to the Society of Jesus in 1548 by the Bishop of Goa, João Afonso de Albuquerque, with the title deeds received by St. Francis Xavier.

St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu

It was founded as a high school (Intermediate level) of St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur and was later shifted to Maitighar, Kathmandu in 1988 by the Society of Jesus.

St. Xavier's School, Bhiwadi

Xavier's School, Bhiwadi is a Christian minority school in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, India under the management of the Jesuits of Delhi Province of the Society of Jesus, an international Catholic religious order, in collaboration with the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Graces.

St. Xavier's School, Godavari

St. Xavier's consists of three schools in Nepal all operated by Jesuits.

St Xavier's School, located in Godavari, Nepal, about 15 k.m. outside Kathmandu, is a school started by Marshall D. Moran and a group of American Jesuit Fathers in 1951.

Taymuraz Mamsurov

In July 2008, he accused the Western diplomats of plotting a “Jesuitical plan” of uniting South Ossetia and North Ossetia into a single entity in order to then push it into NATO through Georgia.

Thomas Petre, 6th Baron Petre

His second cousin, Father Edward Petre, S.J., became advisor and confidant to James II Edward was universally hated and reviled by the populace.

Thomas Tsugi

Educated by the priests of the Society of Jesus at Arima, he joined the order while quite young, around the year 1588.


Albert d'Orville

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1646, and while studying theology at the Catholic University of Leuven he attended the 'Chinese lectures' given by Martino Martini an Italian Jesuit missionary, then visiting the University of Leuven.

Albert Vanhoye

Born on 23 July 1923 at Hazebrouck, France, Albert Vanhoye entered the Society of Jesus in 1941 and studied at Jesuit Scholasticates in France and Belgium, as well as obtaining a licentiate and doctorate in sacred scripture with a thesis on the Letter to the Hebrews, from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (the Biblicum) in Rome.

Alexandrina Maria da Costa

In June 1938, based on the request of Father Mariano Pinho, a jesuit priest, several bishops from Portugal wrote to Pope Pius XI, asking him to consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, based on the reported messages received directly from Jesus and Virgin Mary by Alexandrina Maria da Costa.

Alfred Delp

Immediately after passing his Abitur – in which he came out on top of his class – he joined the Society of Jesus in 1926.

Antonio José González Zumárraga

He was made auxiliary bishop of Quito on May 17, 1969 (with the titular diocese of Tagarata) and was consecrated as bishop in Quito on June 15, 1969 by Cardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega, SJ, Archbishop of Quito.

Bob Dufford

(born 1943) is a Jesuit priest, a former member of the St. Louis Jesuits musical group, and a composer of Catholic liturgical music.

Egbert Xavier Kelly

The Irish Brothers were left to the chapel and a few small rooms while the American De La Salle Christian Brothers were interned, first in a retreat house of the Society of Jesus at Santa Ana, Manila, and then in a Spanish hospital in San Pedro, Makati.

Eugene Buechel

On October 12, 1897, he entered the noviciate of the German Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), which then was located in Bleijenbeek (Netherlands) due to the expulsion of the Jesuits during the Kulturkampf of the German Reich.

Farlington, Hampshire

Among the famous people connected to Farlington is Thomas Pounde (29 May 1539 – 5 March 1614), an English Jesuit lay brother.

Federico Lombardi

He became a Jesuit priest in 1972, and then worked for the influential Jesuit-run magazine, La Civiltà Cattolica, and served as superior of the Jesuits' Italian province.

Ferdinand Konščak

At sixteen he finished the expected grades and was admitted to the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Trenčín, Slovakia, where he stayed for two years.

Francis Paul Prucha

Prucha joined the Society of Jesus in 1950 and was ordained in 1957 after studying at Saint Louis University and Saint Mary's College in St. Marys, Kansas.

Itaquaquecetuba

The municipality was founded between 1560 and 1563 by Jesuits led by Father José de Anchieta, among native villages near the Rio Tiete, beginning with the Catholic chapel of Our Lady of Acute, which was established by Father José.

Jón Sveinsson

Jón "Nonni" Stefán Sveinsson (16 November 1857, near Akureyri - 16 October 1944, Cologne) was an Icelandic children's writer and member of the Society of Jesus.

Joseph Gelineau

Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1941, Gelineau studied theology at a Catholic seminary in Lyon and music in Paris.

Joseph J. Tyson

On April 12, 2011, Tyson was appointed the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Yakima in Washington State, replacing Carlos Arthur Sevilla, S.J.,

Julie von Massow

Such a meeting, however, was so controversial that when the organizer of the conference, the Catholic priest Friedrich Michelis, was seen after the conference riding the train from Erfurt to Halle with Protestant historian and conference participant Heinrich Leo, newspapers in Berlin and Rome reported the news, prompting speculation that the Jesuits were trying to forcefully convert Lutherans.

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

Both sections carry the characteristic Jesuit seal, the IHS of the Compagnia di Gesù.

Loreto, Marche

Loreto's main monuments occupy the four sides of the piazza: the college of the Jesuits, the Palazzo Comunale (formerly the Palazzo Apostolico), designed by Bramante, with an art gallery with works of Lorenzo Lotto, Vouet and Annibale Carracci as well as a collection of maiolica, and the Shrine of the Holy House (Santuario della Santa Casa).

Louis Lallemant

After making his studies under the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, Lallemant entered that order in 1605, having completed the usual course of study and teaching for new members.

Luigi Taparelli

Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio (1793–1862) was an Italian Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus who coined the term social justice.

Michael Mulhall

He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 21 from Archbishop Luigi Ventura, with Archbishops Terrence Prendergast, S.J., and Bishop Nicola De Angelis, C.F.I.C. serving as co-consecrators, at St. Columbkille Cathedral.

Moxo people

Jesuit priests arriving from Santa Cruz de la Sierra began evangelizing native peoples of the region in the 1670s.

National Academy of History of Argentina

Founded in 1893 by Ernesto Quesada, José Toribio Medina, and former President Bartolomé Mitre, the academy was originally chartered as the Junta de Historia y Numismática Americana (Argentine Society of History and Numismatics), and met in the home of Alejandro Rosa (located within the historic Illuminated Block, an erstwhile Jesuit center of learning).

Ōtomo clan

The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549, and soon afterwards met with Ōtomo Sōrin, shugo of Bungo and Buzen provinces, who would later be described by Xavier as a "king" and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1578.

Pablo Muñoz Vega

Pablo Muñoz Vega S.J. (23 May 1903 – 3 June 1994) was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Quito.

Pedro Abarca

Born in Aragon, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1641, and passed almost all his religious life as professor of scholastic, moral, and controversial theology, chiefly in the University of Salamanca.

Plymouth porcelain

William Cookworthy, a Quaker Pharmacist of Plymouth, was greatly interested in locating in Cornwall and Devon minerals similar to those described by Père François Xavier d'Entrecolles, a Jesuit missionary who worked in China during the early eighteenth century, as forming the basis of Chinese porcelain.

Rodrigo de Castro Osorio

Administered, at the beginning, by the Society of Jesus, had consolidated financially the College of Jerez de la Frontera, and contributed to the maintenance of the college-seminar of the British Jesuits from Seville and since its foundation, in addition to being instituted a protector of the congregations that the company had in that city, that of the Annunciation.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Chittagong

Jesuit Father Francesco Fernandez, who came to 'Dianga' (Chittagong) in 1598, and who was blinded and tortured and died in captivity on November 14, 1602, is the Bengal's first martyr.

Roman Catholicism in Ethiopia

Due largely to the behaviour of the Portuguese Jesuit Afonso Mendes, whom Pope Urban VIII appointed as Patriarch of Ethiopia in 1622, Emperor Fasilides expelled the Patriarch and the European missionaries, who included Jerónimo Lobo, from the country in 1636; these contacts, which had seemed destined for success under the previous Emperor, led instead to the complete closure of Ethiopia to further contact with Rome.

San Telmo, Buenos Aires

The neighborhood's poverty led the Jesuits to found a "Spiritual House" in the area, a charitable and educational mission referred to by San Pedro's indigent as "the Residence;" their 1767 suppression led to the mission's closure, however.

St. Robert, Missouri

The city is named after the local Catholic parish, whose patron saint Robert Bellarmine was an important early Jesuit.

Stonor Park

In 1581 the Jesuit priests Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons lived and worked at Stonor Park, and Campion's Decem Rationes was printed here on a secret press.

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

The Superior General of the Society of Jesus is the official title of the leader of the Society of Jesus—the Roman Catholic religious order, also known as the Jesuits.

Triclavianism

The three nails, as a symbol for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, are also used on the coats of arms of Drahovce, Slovakia, Saint Saviour, Jersey, St. Clement Parish, Ottawa and in the seal of the Society of Jesus.