Seizure of the Gesù in Rome--Suspension of the Priests-- Juridical Trial of Father Ricci continued during Two Years--The Victim's Death-bed Statement--Admission of his Innocence by the Inquisitors--Obsequies--Reason of his Protracted Imprisonment--Liberation of the Assistants by Pius VI--Receipt of the Brief outside of Rome--Refused by Switzerland, Poland, Russia and Prussia--Read to the Prisoners in Portugal by Pombal--Denunciation of it by the Archbishop of Paris--Suppression of the Document by the Bishop of Quebec--Acceptance by Austria--Its Enforcement in Belgium--Carroll at Bruges--Defective Promulgation in Maryland. 577-603 CHAPTER XX THE SEQUEL TO THE SUPPRESSION Failure of the Papal Brief to give peace to the Church-- Liguori and Tanucci--Joseph II destroying the Church in Austria--Voltaireanism in Portugal--Illness of Clement XIV--Death--Accusations of poisoning--Election of Pius VI --The Synod of Pistoia--Febronianism in Austria--Visit of Pius VI to Joseph II--The Punctation of Ems--Spain, Sardinia, Venice, Sicily in opposition to the Pope-- Political collapse in Spain--Fall of Pombal--Liberation of his Victims--Protest of de Guzman--Death of Joseph II --Occupations of the dispersed Jesuits--The _Theologia Wiceburgensis_--Feller--Beauregard's Prophecy--Zaccaria-- Tiraboschi--Boscovich--Missionaries--Denunciation of the Suppression in the French Assembly--Slain in the French Revolution--Destitute Jesuits in Poland--Shelter in Russia 604-635 CHAPTER XXI THE RUSSIAN CONTINGENT Frederick the Great and the "Philosophes"--Protection of the Jesuits--Death of Voltaire--Catherine of Russia--The Four Colleges--The Empress at Polotsk--Joseph II at Mohilew--Archetti--Baron Grimm--Czerniewicz and the Novitiate--Assent of Pius VI--Potemkin--Siestrzencewicz-- General Congregation--Benislawski--"_Approbo; Approbo_"-- Accession of former Jesuits. Gruber and the Emperor Paul --Alexander I--Missions in Russia 636-664 CHAPTER XXII THE RALLYING Fathers of the Sacred Heart--Fathers of the Faith--Fusion --Paccanari--The Rupture--Exodus to Russia--Varin in Paris--Clorivière--Carroll's doubts--Pignatelli--Poirot in China--Grassi's Odyssey 665-684 CHAPTER XXIII THE RESTORATION Tragic death of Father Gruber--Fall of Napoleon--Release of the Pope--The Society Re-established--Opening of Colleges--Clorivière--Welcome of the Society in Spain-- Repulsed in Portugal--Opposed by Catholics in England-- Announced in America--Carroll--Fenwick--Neale 685-715 CHAPTER XXIV THE FIRST CONGREGATION