History of the Jesuits: Their origin, progress, doctrines, and designsNicolini, G. B. (Giovanni Battista)
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History of the Jesuits: Their origin, progress, doctrines, and designs
Nicolini, G. B. (Giovanni Battista)
Jesuits -- History
Lainez, aided by the Lipomana family, erected another at the same time
in Venice. A third was built in Padua. After that Italy became studded
with them. Those youth whom Loyola, in the beginning of 1540, had sent to
Paris to study, and receive a degree in its university, being expelled
from France, went to Louvain, and there, under the direction of Lefevre,
became the inmates of a college afterwards famous. The Jesuits had
already many colleges established in Germany, one of which was nursing in
its bosom Peter Canisius, who became most notorious for his cruelties.
In Spain, also, the new order met with prodigious success. Besides being
the birthplace of Ignatius and six of the founders of the order, it
succeeded, at its very commencement, in making a conquest of no less a
person than Francis Borgia, Duke of Candia, and vice-king of Barcelona.
The authority of his name, his exertions, and the eloquence of Father
Araoz, soon covered Spain with houses and colleges. Since the year 1543,
the order already counting nine houses, and more than eighty Professed
members, Paul III., who at first had limited the number of the Jesuits to
sixty, being highly satisfied with these new champions of the Roman See,
issued another bull on the 15th of March 1543, by which he empowered the
order to receive an unlimited number of members.
In speaking of the different countries into which the Jesuits had
intruded themselves, we have purposely passed over England; and that
for two reasons:—_First_, Because, writing in England, and for English
readers, we consider it but fair to expatiate all the more on what
particularly concerns their own country. _Secondly_, Because the two
first Jesuits who entered England were intrusted with a special political
mission—the first one of the kind, and which we are going to relate:—
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