palpable by adding, "These disputes lasted till the dissolution of the society."[124] This is equivalent to saying that the only way to bring them into obedience to the Church was to dissolve them. We shall hereafter see, however, that they did not even obey the act of dissolution. As the society was originally established by Paul III in 1540, and was abolished by Clement XIV in 1773, it thus appears that considerably more than one-half the period of its existence had been spent in open and flagrant resistance to the authority of the popes and the Church--a pregnant fact, which no sophistry can palliate or explain. But as our inquiries proceed, there will be other years of resistance to add to these, along with such combinations of circumstances as show how the society became odious to the Christian world, and how rightfully it was dissolved. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 111: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 303.] [Footnote 112: Steinmetz, Vol. III, p. 474. Citing the Jesuit Fathers De Bourges and Martin.] [Footnote 113: _Ibid._, p. 489.] [Footnote 114: Steinmetz, Vol. III, p. 490, and note 1, where these authorities are cited.] [Footnote 115: _Ibid._, p. 491.] [Footnote 116: Steinmetz, Vol. III, p. 467.] [Footnote 117: Daurignac, Vol. I, pp. 336-367.] [Footnote 118: Daurignac, p. 53.] [Footnote 119: Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs. By De Montor. American edition. Vol. II, p. 191.] [Footnote 120: Nicolini, p. 114.] [Footnote 121: De Montor, Vol. II, p. 192.] [Footnote 122: Nicolini, pp. 126-127.] [Footnote 123: De Montor, Vol. II, p. 192.] [Footnote 124: _Ibid._, p. 278.] CHAPTER XIII. PAPAL SUPPRESSION OF THE SOCIETY.