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History of the Jesuits

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A.

Abbot of St. Cyran, writings of, 232;

history of, 233

Abolition of the Order, 362, 374-376, 411

Absolution, origin of the doctrine, 13;

consequences of the, 243-245

Acquaviva, Fifth General of the Order, 90;

character of, 186, 210;

election of, ibid.;

his success in Spain, 228;

his opinions on the theology of St. Thomas, 230;

on the doctrines of Grace and Free-Will, 231;

death of, 255;

consequences of, to the Order, 256;

his successor, ibid.

Administrators, appointment and duties of, 38, 55;

pre-eminence of, 316

Admonitors, 54-56

Adrian VI, confessions of, 30

Albert of Bavaria, supports the Jesuits, 199

Albigenses, massacre of the, 60

Alcala, introduction of Jesuitism, 22;

oppositions to the Order in, 79

Alexander VII, opposes the doctrines of the Augustinus, 234

—— of Russia expels the Jesuits, 433

Alva, Duke of, 135;

his character, 146

America, Jesuit missions of, 297;

state of religion in 298;

conduct of the Jesuits in, 300;

features of the mission in, 302-313;

exchange of possessions in, 333

Analysis of the brief of suppression, 387

—— of the bull of re-establishment, 442

—— of the constitution, 31-33

—— of the brief of re-establishment, 442

Ancona, executions at, 480, 481

Angouleme, Duke of, aids the Jesuits, 450

Antonelli, Cardinal, plots the revolution in Rome, 474

Antony, St., miracles of, 258 n.

Antwerp, Jesuit congregations of, 217

Archbishops of the Society, 408

Armada, Jesuits connected with the, 168

Armagh, Archbishop of, seeks to suppress the Protestants in England, 63

Arrêt, for the expulsion of the Jesuits from France, 224

Alliance, purport of the, 180

Assassination of Queen Elizabeth projected, 164;

encouraged by the Jesuits, 165, 166, 168

—— of Henry IV, 254

Assembly of Bishops, 346

Augustinus, publication of the, 233

Austria, restoration of the Jesuits to, 200, 450;

their influence in, 253;

governed by Jesuits, 435;

Jesuits refused admission to, 452;

aids the Pope in the late revolution, 475;

consequences to, 477

Authors, Jesuit, 15, 96

Averio, Duke of, executed, 340, 341

Avignon, Jesuit congregation of, 217;

is seized by the French, 359

B.

Babington, conspiracy of, 167

Baptism, Jesuit administration of the ordinance, 110

Barcelona, Vice-King of, aids the Jesuit influence in Spain, 62

Barrière, attempts to assassinate Henry IV, 187;

his confession, ibid.;

is executed, 188

Barry, Father, writings of, 247

Bavaria, supremacy of the Jesuits in, 253

Bedloe, character and plot of, 292, 293

Belgium, flourishing state of the Jesuits in, 454;

their designs on, ibid.

Bellarmine, Robert, on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 191

Benedict XIV, opposes the Jesuits, 128, 328

Bernis, Cardinal, 363;

his answer to the Conclave, 365;

intrigues for the election of Pope, 375;

urges Clement to destroy the Jesuits, 378-380

Bishops, 346;

number of, 408

Boarders in Jesuit colleges, 219, 220

Boarding-houses, connected with the colleges, 214

Bobadilla, one of the ten founders of the Order, 28;

mission of, to Naples, 59;

is expelled by Charles V, 76;

banished, 77;

heads a revolt against Lainez, 134;

his letter to, 142

Books, Protestant, confiscation of, at Vienna, 201

Borgia, character of, 7;

is admitted to the Society, 35;

uses his influence to establish the Jesuits in Spain, 62;

elected Vicar-General, 145;

visits Spain and France, 148;

his death, 149

Bourbon, Cardinal de, assumes the title of King of France, 182

Bourbon, influence of the House of, 378

Braganza, Duke of, crowned King of Portugal, 275, 276

Braschi, made Pope, under the title of Pius VI, 425;

character of, 426;

his conduct towards the Jesuits, ibid.

Briant, execution of, 163

Bridgewater, John, on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 191

Brief of suppression, 382, 383;

analysis of the, 387-406;

provisions of the, 422

—— for the re-establishment of the Jesuits, 439;

analysis of the, 440

Brotherhood, Jesuit, 217;

doctrines and practices of the, 235

Brouet, his mission to Ireland, 64

Brugellette, Jesuit college of, 458

Bulls issued against Queen Elizabeth, 153, 162

—— against the Jesuits, 127, 128, 313, 328

—— for the suppression of the Order, 387

—— for the re-establishment of the Order, 439, 442

—— in favour of the Order, 28, 62

Busembaum on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 193

C.

Cæsar, Julius, character of, 7

Calvinism, doctrines of, 183

Calvinists, persecution of, 270, 273

Campion, his mission to England, 154;

arrest of, 161;

trial of, 163

Candia, Duke of, aids the Jesuits, 62

Candidates for the Order, requirements of, 31-37, 448

Canisius, Peter, 62

—— founds the College of Friburg, 206

Canonization, rules for, 258-262, 310 n.

—— of Loyola and Xavier, 262

Cano, a Dominican friar, preaches against the Jesuits, 78;

is made Bishop of the Canaries, 79

Canova, statue of Clement XIII by, 361

Caraffa, General, 317, 318, see “Paul IV”

Cardinals, Jesuit, 408

Carlos, Don, supported by the Jesuits, 451

Carvalho, Minister of Portugal, 331;

created Marquis of Pombal, 332;

see “Pombal”

Casimir, King of Poland, 282

Castilians, revolt of the, 450

Catechisms, Jesuit, 197

Catesby, 286

Catherine of Austria, deposed by the Jesuits, 171

—— de Medicis, opposes the Jesuits, 176, 177

—— of Russia, protects the Jesuits, 430, 431

Catholicism, decline of, 58

Catholics, Roman, first persecuted in England, 163

Cave of Manreze, the place of Loyola’s retirement, 13

Ceremonies, Catholic, 249, 250, 262

Chiaramonti, 438;

re-establishes the Jesuits, 439

Charles I, of England, 290

—— III, of Spain, 349;

expels the Jesuits, 350;

his motives for, 352-354;

seeks to destroy the Jesuits, 379

—— V, opposes the Order, 75

—— IX, of France, 179

Chastel, John, attempts to assassinate Henry IV, 188;

his punishment, 189, 190

China, Jesuit mission to, 105

Choiseul, minister of France, 331;

attempts to reform the Order, 346;

character of, 347, 348

Christina of Sweden and the Jesuits, 282, 283

Church of England agitated by Catholic aggression, 163

—— Evangelical, of Cracow, attacked by the Jesuits, 280

—— of Rome, decline of the, 8, 9;

doctrines of, 14, 15, 40;

condition of, in the 16th century, 30, 31;

supremacy of, 195;

restoration of, in Austria, 201;

in Sweden, 203;

arrogance of, towards England, 467

Churches of America, 299

Civilization, progress of, 7

Civita Vecchia, arrival of French troops at, 475;

becomes a French port, 477

Classes of Jesuits, 46, 462

Clement VIII, Pope, 231, 232

—— XIII, 338;

his partiality for the Fathers, 339;

protects the Jesuits, 357, 359;

death of, 360;

monument of, by Canova, 361

—— XIV, 371;

character of, 372, 383, 420;

is elected Pope, 375;

policy of, 376, 378;

hesitates to suppress the Jesuits, 381-384;

death of, 412;

mysterious cause of the, 414-420

Clergy, Roman Catholic, two classes of, 178 n.;

subjected to the Jesuits, 272

Coadjutors, 44, 49, 50

Code of legislature for Jesuit schools, 213-215

—— moral of the Jesuits, 230-252

Coimbra, first college of the Jesuits founded at, 62

College of Cardinals, 253

Colleges of the Society, 39, 48, 62, 90;

endowed by Gregory XIII, 150;

class of education imparted in, 214;

rules for the admission of pupils to, ibid.;

internal life of the, 219;

discipline in, 221;

education of English youths in, 152, 153, 168;

established in France, 178, 458;

character of, 185;

in Germany, 196, 452;

in Austria, 200;

in Switzerland, 206;

in Spain, 451;

in Galicia, 452;

in England, 459;

in Ireland, 461;

in Italy, 484;

number of at the time the Society was suppressed, 408

Cologne, Jesuits in, 196

Commerce of the Order, seat of, 277;

character of, in Europe, 335, 336

Commotions among the Jesuits, 209

Communism in America, 303

Companions of the Order, 23, 24

Company of Jesus, 45, see “Society of”

Conclave, affairs of the, 368-372

Confession, doctrine of, 41, 238-244, 287;

practised in Jesuit colleges, 220 n., 221 n.

Confessors, importance of, 236, 237;

influence of, 322;

to the Kings of France, 254, 255, 267, 271, 272

—— influence of, in Portugal, 171;

removal of, 335

Congregation of rites, 259, 260 n.

Congregations, or assemblies of the Order, 53;

origin of the, 217;

various denominations of, ibid.;

abolished by the Parliament, 348

Congregations, general, 53;

difficulties of assembling, 134;

influence of the, 217;

decrees of, 277, 278

—— of the Holy Virgin, 217, 455

—— provincial, 56

—— of the Sacred Heart, 455

Congress of Poissey, 143

—— of Worms, 58

Consalves de Camera, influence of, in Portugal, 171

Conspiracies of the Jesuits in England, 164, 165, 285, 286, 292

—— in France, 179, 186

—— in Portugal, 172, 173, 276

Conspirators, trial and execution of, in England, 285, 289

Constitution of the Society, 30;

analysis of the, 31-33;

changes in the, 317;

exposition of the, 345

Convent of Santa Martha, 59

—— of Santa Catherine, 59

Converts, Jesuit, 463

Cordeliers, Order of, 369

Corsica, Jesuits in, 358

Cotton, Father, apologetic letter of, 255

Council of Poissey, 177

—— Seize, 182 n.

—— Trent, 143, 144

Court of Rome, struggles with the Jesuits, 235, 328;

succumbs to the Order, 322;

two distinct powers of the, 363

Cracow, Evangelical Church of, attacked by the Jesuits, 280

Creed, political, of the Jesuits, 191-193

Creighton, conspiracy of, 164

Crétineau-Joly, writings of, 15;

on the conspiracies in England, 161, 166;

on the “Imago Primi Sæculi”, 265;

on the conspiracies in Portugal, 271;

on the conduct of the Jesuits in England, 458, 459;

on “Puseyism,” 464

Cromwell, Jesuits discouraged by, 291

Crusades, 475

Cyran, St., 232, 233

D.

Days of the barricades in France, 181

Decrees against the Jesuits in Portugal, 342;

execution of the, 355;

in England, 161;

in Spain, 351

Democracy, encouraged by the Jesuits, 194

Diet of Nuremberg, 30

Dissensions among the Jesuits, 210

Doctrine of absolution, 13, 243-245

—— of confession, 140, 238-243, 287

—— of equivocation, 244

—— of free will, 231

—— of grace, 231

—— of infallibility, 233, 234

—— of transgression, 238

Doctrines of the Church of Rome, 13, 18, 40

—— of the Gallican Church, 177, 178, 179 n.

—— of Jansenius, 233, 234

—— of the Jesuits, 168, 191, 194, 230-234, 236-250

Dominicans oppose the Jesuits, 231

Don Carlos supported by the Jesuits, 451

—— Pedro, Jesuits expelled from Portugal by, 451

Dress of the Jesuits, 43

Dubarry, Mme de, 386

Du Prat, Bishop of Clermond, establishes the Jesuits in Paris, 84

E.

Earthquake of Lisbon, 334

Edict of Nantes, 270;

revoked, 271

Edicts of Henry VIII, 63

—— of Queen Elizabeth against the Jesuits, 157

Education of the Jesuits, 48, 196, 197;

the cause of their influence, 213;

course of, 221;

character of, 222, 224

Election of Generals, 49, 53, 136, 145, 149, 256

—— of Popes, party struggles for the, 362, 367, 369

Electors, 408

Elizabeth, Queen, persecuted by the Jesuits, 153, 284;

character given her by the Catholics, 154;

projected assassination of, 164, 165;

excommunication of, 162;

her opinions on the apostacy of Henry IV of France, 183 n.

Elliot, conspirators betrayed by, 161

Emancipation Act, tendency of, to check the Jesuits, 462

Emperor, attachment of the Romans to the title, 366

Emperors of Austria, 278, 450

—— of France, 436, 438, 447, 448, 455

—— of Germany, 75, 365, 368

Emeute des Chapeaux, 350

Emmanuel Sa on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 191, 192

Encyclopædists, 329;

attempt to reform the Order, 347;

the French revolution ascribed to, 437

England, dawn of the Reformation in, 8;

mission of the Jesuits to, 63-70, 151-156;

conduct of the Jesuits in, 158-162, 283;

peace of, disturbed by them, 169, 284, 292;

present relation of the Jesuits to, 194;

their plots in, 284-296;

position of, during their suppression, 453;

Jesuits, refugees, admitted to, 459;

causes which tend to check their progress in, 462;

efforts to restore Romanism in, 464;

destruction of, intended by the Jesuits, 465, 466;

Italy abandoned by, 476;

Jesuit emissaries in, 464

Epitome of the history of the Jesuits in Portugal, 332-335

Equivocation, Jesuit doctrine of, 244

Escobar, on the moral doctrines of the Jesuits, 236

Estates in England given to the Jesuits, 459;

consequences of, 460

Establishments of the Order, 366, 410

Europe, state of, in the sixteenth century, 1;

commerce of the Jesuits in, 335-337;

moral condition of, at the period of the French revolution, 436, 437

Eve of St. Bartholomew, massacre on the, 148, 159

Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth, 162;

of Henry III of France, 181;

of the Duke of Parma, 358

Exeter, Lord Bishop of, a supposed member of the secret class, 464

Execution of Jesuits in England, 163, 165

—— in France, 189

—— in Portugal, 341

Exercises, religious, in the Church of Rome, 17;

for the Novitiates, 46-48

F.

Fathers of the Faith, 422;

take part in the French revolution, 455;

abolished by Napoleon, ibid.

Ferdinand aids the Jesuits in persecuting the Protestants, 278;

is again associated with them, 450

Florence, persecution of Protestants at, 477

Florida Blanca, Count, Spanish Ambassador to Rome, 385;

his hatred of the Jesuits, 427

Fortis elected General, 449

Founders of colleges, benefits derived by, 39

Founders of the Society, 29

France, mission of the Jesuits to, 62;

opposes the Order, 83-88, 175, 177;

progress of the Jesuits in, 178, 181;

origin of the civil wars in, 179;

expulsion of Jesuits from, 189, 349;

readmits them, 224-226, 450;

influence of the Jesuits in, 253, 266, 272, 274;

their overthrow in, 328, 330, 458;

causes of the, 329, 343;

encourages political reform, 331;

revolutions in, 436, 455, 457;

present position of the Jesuits in, 458, 489

Frederick of Prussia protects the Jesuits, 423;

explanations of his conduct, 427-429

Free Will, doctrine of, 231

Friburg, college of, founded, 206;

present condition of the, 450;

congregation of, 217

G.

Gaeta, Pope Pius IX takes refuge at, 474

Galicia, Jesuits in, 435;

schools and colleges of, 452

Ganganelli, 369;

character of, 370, 372, 374;

elected Pope under the title of Clement XIV, 371, 375;

slandered by the Jesuits, 411;

decline and death of, 413-420;

his successor, 425

See also Clement XIV

Garnet, connection of with Gunpowder Plot, 286

Generals of the Order:—

Acquaviva, elected, 1581, 210;

Barzozowski, 1805, 448;

Borgia, 1567, 146;

Caraffa, 1646, 317;

Czerniwiecz, 432;

Fortis, 1820, 449;

Gonzales, 1687, 324;

Gottifredi, 1652, 319;

Grouba, 1801, 432;

Koller, 432;

Lainez, 1558, 136;

Lenkeawiecz, 432;

Loyola, 1541, 58;

Mercurianus, 1572, 150;

Nickel, 1652, 319;

Noyelle, 1681, 324;

Oliva, 1664, 320;

Piccolomini, 1649, 319;

Ricci, 1758, 357;

Rootham, 1829, 458;

Tambourini, 1705, 325;

Vitelleschi, 1615, 256

—— powers of, 31-34, 45, 48;

election of, 49, 53, 136, 145, 319;

limitation of the office, 137, 212;

their influence on the congregations, 217;

diminished power of, 256;

their office in canonization, 311 n.

Genoa, Jesuits repulsed from, 358

Germany, dawn of the Reformation in, 8;

mission of the Jesuits to, 59;

decline of the Order in, 75, 76;

Jesuit influence in, 194;

miseries arising to the country from, 278;

Princes of, limit the authority of the Jesuits, 327, 328;

Joseph, Emperor of, visits Rome, 365-369;

Jesuits dismissed from, 452;

present position of, ibid.

Gesù, visit of the Emperor Joseph to the, 366, 367;

Jesuits re-assembled at the, 447

Gioberti on the “Secret Class,” 46;

on the “Spirit of the Constitution,” 317;

his death, 473 n.

Goa, arrival of Xavier at, 101;

character of the inhabitants, 102

Gospels, as translated by the Jesuits, 185

Gottifredi, elected General of the Order, 319

Grace, doctrine of, 231

Great Britain, increased influence of the Jesuits in, 153, 465

Gregory XIII, 149;

colleges founded by, 150, 153;

his enmity to England, 159;

to John of Sweden, 205;

assemblies organized by, 217

Grenada, Jesuits in, 139, 287

Grouber, chosen General in Russia, 432, 433

Guise, Duke of, 179;

chosen chief of the Holy Alliance, 180;

his ambition and death, 181

Guinard executed in France, 189

Gunpowder Plot, connection of the Jesuits with, 283-286;

results of the, 292

H.

Habeas Corpus Act, origin of the, 292

Hanover, House of, conduct of the Jesuits under the, 459

Henry III of France, 179;

character of, 180, 181;

death of, 182

—— IV of Bourbon forms a league with Philip of Spain, 182;

abjures the doctrines of Calvin, 183, 270;

attempted assassination of, 187, 189;

re-establishes the Jesuits in France, 225;

grants letters patent, 254;

death of, ibid.

—— VIII of England and the Jesuits, 63, 64

Hierarchy of the Jesuits, 45, 53

Hindoos, missions of the Jesuits to the, 108, 109

Holland, Jesuits in, 453

Holy Alliance, or League, purport of the, 180;

members of, ibid.

Houses connected with Jesuit Colleges, 214

—— of novitiate, 46

—— of probation, 32

—— of professed members, 408

Huguenots, persecution of the, 270, 273;

massacre of, 271

Hume on “Babington’s Conspiracy,” 167

—— on the “Jesuit Conspiracies in England,” 162, 163

I.

Idolatry, introduced into the Christian form of worship, 108-111;

practised in America, 307

Ignatius of Loyola, see “Loyola”

Ignorance, doctrine of the invincibility of, 238, 239

Il Gesuita Moderno, 473

Images, worship of, taught by the Jesuits, 249

Imago Primi Sæculi, 263, 264

India, Jesuit missions to, 101, 297;

influence of the Jesuits in, 128;

Jesuit commerce in, 336

Indians, effects of Spanish cruelties on the, 297;

drilled by the Jesuits to arms, 305;

Jesuit influence over the, 301, 302, 305;

revolt of, 333

Ingoldstadt, Jesuit college at, 197

Innocent X, Pope, 233

Innspruck, Jesuit college of, 452

Inquisition, restored by Loyola, 59;

rules of the, 60, 61;

working of in Italy, 61;

in Spain, 148, 209

Inquisitors, appointment of, 60

Institute, Jesuit, established by Parliament, 348

Institutions, founded by Loyola in Rome, 59

—— religious, of the Jesuits, 455

Instructions, gratuitously imparted by the Jesuits, 198, 327;

design of, 213;

character of the, 221

Insurrections in America, 333

—— in England, 63, 285

—— in France, 273

—— in Madrid, 350, 451

Interim, published by Charles V, 75

Intrigues of the Court of Rome, 363, 364

Ireland, Jesuits sent to, 64;

their design and work in, 68;

renewed mission to, 151;

Jesuit college in, 461;

rapid increase of the Jesuits in, 462

Isabella Rosello, see “Rosello”

—— of Spain, opposed by the Jesuits, 451

Italians, their hatred to the Order, 449, 450

Italy, the centre of civilization, 6;

restoration of the Inquisition in, 62;

influence of the Jesuits in, 253;

political reform encouraged in, 331;

Jesuits expelled from, 357, 358, 473;

re-established in, 447;

present power of the Jesuits in, 469, 471;

state of before the pontificate of Pius IX, 470, 471;

civil wars in, 474-478

J.

James II, reign of, 293

—— VI, designs of the Jesuits on, 164, 284;

his connection with, 169

Jansenism, origin of, 232

Jansenius, 232;

persecution of, 268, 273

Japan, Jesuit mission to, 104;

character of the Japanese, ibid.

Jesuits, origin of the, 24;

requirements of, 34, 35, 38;

dress of, 43;

characteristics of the, 67, 195, 493, 495;

works of, 68, 69;

causes of their success, 90;

immorality of, 140-143;

wealth of, 150, 493;

influence of, over the minds of youth, 169;

political creed of, 150, 191-193, 194;

reflections on the influence and conduct of, throughout Europe, 207, 208;

internal commotions of the Order, 209;

influence of, 213, 217, 266, 312, 458;

ascendancy of over all other powers, 218, 253;

moral code of the, 231;

principal seat of their power, 254;

commerce of, 277, 335-338;

conduct of, during the Thirty Years’ War, 278, 279;

causes of the discord between them and other orders, 311;

causes of their decline, 315, 326-329;

attachment of, to the Order, 321;

golden age of, 322;

condition of, in the seventeenth century, 323;

downfall of, 326-329;

expelled from Portugal, 343;

from France, 348, 349;

from Spain, 350, 351, 358;

refused admission to the Papal dominions, 357, 358;

received into Corsica, 358;

abolition of the, 376;

suppressed by the Pope, 380, 387;

condition of the, after their suppression, 422-435;

re-establishment of, 436-467;

the natural enemies of liberty, 438;

present designs of, 454;

their position in and after the year 1848, 469, 491

Jesuits in America, 398, 301, 333

—— in Austria, 200

—— in England, 155-168, 170, 194, 283, 284, 291

—— in France, 176-179, 182, 184-189, 224, 271-274, 328-330, 349

—— in Germany, 194, 198-202, 278, 327

—— in Great Britain, 153

—— in Poland, 202, 203, 253, 280, 282

—— in Portugal, 171, 172, 253, 275, 277, 331, 334, 342

—— in Prussia, 423-429

—— in Russia, 423, 430, 431

—— in Sardinia, 448

—— in Scotland, 152, 169

—— in Sicily, 433

—— in Silesia, 424, 433

—— in Spain, 209, 350, 450, 451

—— in Sweden, 195, 205

—— in Switzerland, 205

—— in the Venetian States, 226

—— in White Russia, 430, 433

—— under the House of Hanover, 459, 462, 469

—— under Mazzarini, 267

—— under Richelieu, 266, 267

Jesuitism, progress of, 58, 59;

true spirit of, 277, 311;

compared with Protestantism, 464;

spread of, in England, 460;

decline of, in Germany, 75;

in Spain, 78-81;

in Portugal, 82;

in France, 83

John III, of Portugal, 171

—— of Sweden, subverts Protestantism and aids the Jesuits, 203;

vacillation of, 204, 205

Joseph I, of Portugal, 175;

attempted assassination of, 339, 340

—— II, of Germany, 365;

designs of on Papal power, 367

Julius Cæsar, see “Cæsar”

Justitia Britannica, 163

K.

Kenney, Father, President of Jesuit colleges in Ireland, 461

King of the Jesuits, 202

Kings, Jesuit, of Poland, 202, 282

—— of Portugal, 175

Koller, General of the Order, 432

L.

Lachaise, Père, 270

Lacroix on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 193

Lainez, a companion of Loyola, 23;

accompanies him to Rome, 26;

erects a convent in Venice, 62;

appointed Vicar-General, 133, 136;

attends the Congress of Poissy, 143;

assembles the Council of Trent, ibid.;

character and death of, 144;

instigates the persecution of the Waldenses, 206;

his successor, 145

Lambertini, 338

Lavallette, Father, 38;

character of, 344, 345

Laws enacted in England against the Jesuits, 167, 292

—— issued in France against the Jesuits, 189

League, or “Holy Union,” 179;

chief of, elected, 180;

object of the, ibid.;

termination of the, 184;

part taken by the Jesuits in, 185

Lefevre, a Companion of the Order, 23;

one of its founders, 28;

mission of, to Spain, 58

Legends of Loyola, 22 n., 23 n.

Leghorn, Jesuits repulsed from, 358;

becomes an Austrian port, 477

Lejay, mission of, to Germany, 59

Leo X, character of, 7

Leopold, Duke of Tuscany, 365;

admits the Jesuits, 486

Lepanto, battle of, 148

Letellier, 272, 273

Lettre de cachet, 272 n.

Liberals, Jesuits opposed to, 438;

hatred of Pope Pius IX to, 474

Lisbon, the seat of Jesuit commerce, 277;

great earthquake in, 334

Literature, importance of, 222

Liverpool, Jesuits established at, 459

Lombardy, Jesuits in, 487

Loyola, Ignatius, biography of, 10, 21, 23;

writings of, 14-17, 30 n.;

visions of, 15;

pilgrimage of, 21;

his attempts at proselytism, 22;

disciples of, 24, 28;

vows of, 24, 25;

elected First General of the Order, 57;

institutions founded by, 59;

character of, 90;

his correspondence with the Sovereigns of Europe, 93;

illness and death of, 93, 94;

canonized as a saint, 262;

statue of, 367;

state of the Society at his death, 408;

his chief aim, 493

Louis XIII, Jesuit influence under, 266

—— XIV, confessors of, 267, 272;

assumes the Government, 269;

marries Madame de Maintenon, 272

—— XV supports the Jesuits, 330;

character of, 346

—— Napoleon, see “Napoleon”

Louvain, Jesuit college first founded at, 62

Lucerne invaded by the Jesuits, 458

Luther, excommunication of, 8;

doctrines of, 232

Luynes, Cardinal, 346

M.

Madiais, offence and punishment of the, 487

Madrid, insurrection of the Jesuits in, 350, 451

Maintenon, Madame de, 270, 272

Malabar, mission of Xavier to, 103

Malacca, Jesuit mission to, 104

Malta, commerce of the Jesuits in, 337

Manifesto against the Confessors, 335

Manifesto against the Jesuits in Portugal, 342

Marca, Archbishop of Toulouse, persecutes the Jesuits, 269

Mariana, John, on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 192

Martyrs of the Society, 262, 408

Mary of England receives the Jesuits, 152

—— of Scotland, 162

Mass, benefits procured by, 46

Massacre of the Huguenots, 271

—— —— on St. Bartholomew’s Eve, 159;

consequences of the, 179

Maynooth, college of, 461

Mazzarini, 267

Memorial of the Jesuits in England to the Pope, 163, 285

Mercurianus elected General, 149;

character and death of, 150;

submission of the Jesuits to, 209

Metternich refuses to admit the Jesuits to Austria, 452

Missionaries, Jesuit, first sent to England, 64-66

Missions of the Jesuits in America, 301-313

—— —— in China, 105, 297

—— —— in England, 151, 171

—— —— in Europe generally, 62

—— —— in France, 179

—— —— in Germany, 75

—— —— to the Holy Land, 24, 25

—— —— in India, 96-129, 297

—— —— in Ireland, 152

—— —— in Portugal, 171-175

—— —— in Scotland, 152, 169

—— —— political, of the Jesuits to England, 63

Modena, Jesuits in, 469

Mohilow, Bishop of, 431

Molina, on the doctrine of Free Will, 231

Molinism, 231

Monastery of Port Royal, destruction of, 274

Monasteries, 369 n.

Monks, Benedictine, 466

Month of Mary, or period consecrated to the worship of the Virgin, 249

Morality of the Jesuits, 238

Morals, Jesuit Code of, 230-252

N.

Nantes, edict of, passed, 270;

revoked, 271

Naples, political reform encouraged in, 331;

Jesuits expelled from, 358;

re-established in, 485;

government of, 486

Napoleon, fall of, 436;

causes of the, 447, 448;

Jesuits encouraged by, 455

—— Louis, his connection with the Jesuits, 438, 454, 491;

supports the Pope in the late revolution, 475

Nevil, the conspirator, 165

Nickel, General, 319;

is deposed, 320

Nobili, Father, 108

Norwich, Jesuits established in, 459

Novices, 46

Novitiates, 408, 451

Noyelle, General, 324

Nuns, 233;

persecution of, 269, 270

O.

Oates, character and plot of, 292, 293

Officers of the Order, 38, 54-56

Oldcorne, Father, 289 n.

Oliva, General, 320;

character of, 321;

corresponds with the sovereigns of Europe, 322

Olivarez, attacks the Jesuits, 389

Order of Cordeliers, 369

—— of Franciscans, 369, 371

—— of Jesuits, origin of the, 9;

founders of the, 29;

generals of the, see “Generals;”

companions of the, 23;

assemblies of the, 53;

progress of the, 57, 62;

causes which led to its ultimate destruction, 228, 325-327;

new phase of the history of, 253;

reform of, demanded, 346;

abolition of, 348, 350, 355, 362;

suppression of, 360, 382, 383;

policy of the, 433;

re-establishment of, in Rome, 439;

present designs of, 466

—— of Theatines, 25

Orders suppressed by the Popes, 389

—— religious, instituted by the Jesuits, 455

Oudinot, General, 475, 479

P.

Padua, Jesuit college founded at, 62

Palafox, Bishop, history of, 309

Palestine, pilgrimage of Loyola to, 21, 26

Pampeluna, Loyola wounded at the siege of, 11

Papists, 293;

efforts of the, to restore Romanism into England, 464

Paraguay, Jesuits established at, 301

Paris, operations of the League in, 181;

siege of, 184

Parma, Jesuits expelled from, 358

—— Duke of, excommunicated, 359

Parry, William, his project to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, 164;

trial and execution of, 165

Parson, heads the Jesuit mission to England, 154, 155;

is persecuted by the English, 160;

escapes to France, 164;

attempt to dispose of the crown, 284

Pascal, on “Invincible Ignorance,” 240;

exposes the Jesuit constitution, 345

Pasquier, on “the Jesuits in Portugal,” 172, 173

Passports, spiritual, granted by the Jesuits, 323, 324

Paul III, 28;

issues a bull in favour of the Jesuits, 62;

sends Jesuits to Ireland, 64

—— IV, Caraffa, 24, 25;

opposes the Jesuits, 94;

at war with Spain, 133;

death of, 139

—— V, 232

Pellico, Francis, on the “Secret Class,” 46

Percy, reveals the Gunpowder Plot, 285

Persecutions of the Protestants in France, 159, 179, 269-271;

in Germany, 201, 278, 279;

in the Papal States, 477;

in Poland, 202, 280;

in Wilna, 280

Philip II, 136;

opposes the Jesuits, 140;

is crowned King of Portugal, 174;

joins the League, 182;

character of, 267

—— III, Jesuit influence under, 275

—— IV, 274

—— of Orleans, made Regent of France, 330

Philosophers, 6

Piccolomini, 278;

elected General, 319

Piedmont, exclusion of the Jesuits from, 487, 488

Pierre Caraffa, see Paul IV

Pilgrimages of Loyola, 21, 24, 26

Pius V, character of, 146;

subjects the Jesuits to monastic duties, 148;

issues a bull against Queen Elizabeth, 153

Pius VI, 426

—— VII, 438;

the Order of Jesuits re-established by, 439;

is worshipped by the people, 447

—— IX, auspicious commencement of his reign, 471;

his struggles with the Jesuits, 472-474;

flies to Gaeta, 474;

restoration of, 481

Poland, works of the Jesuits in, 194, 202;

their supremacy in, 253;

persecution of the Protestants in, 380, 381;

expulsion of the Jesuits from, 435

Policy of the Society, great change in the, 224

Pombal, Marquis of, 332;

heroic conduct of, in the great earthquake, 334;

increasing power of, 335;

opposes the Jesuits, 339;

issues a decree for their expulsion from Portugal, 343;

attempts to reform the Order, 347

Pompadour, Madame de, 343;

opposes the Jesuits, 346;

her successor, 386

Pontecorvo, seized by the French, 359

Popery, means by which it has been preserved in England, 285

—— decline of, in France, 490

—— decline of, in Italy, 490

Pope Adrian VI, 30

—— Benedict, 128, 328, 338

—— Clement VIII, 231, 232

—— —— XIII, 338, 339

—— —— XIV, 371, 372, 381-385, 412-420

—— Gregory XIII, 149, 153, 159

—— Innocent X, 233

—— Pius V, 146, 148, 153

—— —— VI, 426

—— —— VII, 438, 439, 447

—— —— IX, 471-474, 481

—— Sixtus V, 182

—— Urban, 233

Popes of Rome, 6;

infallibility of, 233;

secular power of, 361;

election of, 369

Port Royal, sisterhood of, 233, 269, 270;

monastery of, 274

Portugal, Jesuits in, 82, 171, 332-335;

their supremacy in, 253;

conspiracies in, 275, 276;

political reform encouraged in, 331;

possessions of, in America, exchanged with Spain, 333;

Jesuits expelled from, 342;

re-established in, 451

Possevin, persecutes the Waldenses, 207

Postulants, rules for the admission of, 31-33, 37

Poverty of the Jesuits, 38

Prague, Jesuit assembly in, 217

Preston, Jesuits established in, 459

Priests of the Order, 40;

their influence over the people, 217

Printing, introduction of, 9

Probabilism, Jesuit doctrine of, 237, 241;

effects of, 244, 245

Procession to the Church of Gesù, 59

Processions, Catholic, 131, 132

Proclamations, 157, 160

—— issued in England against the Jesuits, 161

—— abolishing the Order in Spain, 351

Professed, Jesuit class of the, 50;

admission of, to the Order, ibid.;

vows taken by the, 51;

increased numbers of the, 316

Professio Fidei, restored in Germany, 199

Proselytism, Jesuit, 463, 464, 466

Protestantism, early characteristics of, 58;

powerfully opposed by the Jesuits, 195;

reaction against in Germany, 199;

extirpated from the Imperial cities, 201;

subverted in Poland, 203, 280-282;

attacked in Sweden, 203;

re-established, 204;

attacked in England by the Puseyites, 264-266;

results of these contests on, 235

Protestants, projected massacre of, by the Papists, 156;

persecution of, by Pope Gregory, 159;

encouraged in France, 179;

persecution of, by the Jesuits, 201, 202, 269-271, 278, 279, 280;

extirpation of, enjoined on Catholic priests, 466;

duty of, in the present religious crisis, 467

—— educated in Jesuit colleges, 198

—— massacre of the, 159

—— in France, 179, 269-271

—— in Germany, 201, 278, 279

—— in Poland, 202, 280-282

Provincials, election of, 55

Prussia, Jesuits admitted to, 423, 429;

late king of, 452

Purgatory, doctrine of, 40-42;

propounded by Father Maldonat, 179 n.

Pusey, Dr., a supposed member of the Fifth Secret Class, 464

Puseyites, progressive work of the, 464;

similarity of, to Jesuitism, ibid.

Pythoness, the, of Valentano, 413

Q.

Quinet, on the “Paraguay Missions,” 306

R.

Raggonico, character of, 338

Ranke, on the “State of Religion in America,” 298;

on the “Commerce of the Jesuits,” 336;

on the “Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain,” 352

Ratio Studiorum, or Code of School Legislature, 213;

importance of the, 224;

condemned by the Inquisition, 231

Ravaillac, the assassin of Henry IV, 254;

Jesuits accused as his accomplices, ibid.

Rectors, appointment of, 38, 49, 55

Reductions, or Village Missions, 302;

life in the, 303, 304;

government of the, 305, 306;

insurrections in the, 333

Re-establishment of the Jesuits in France, 436

—— of the Jesuits in Rome, 439-447;

consequences of the, 447

Reform, political, encouraged by the sovereigns of Europe, 33

Reformation, dawn of the, 6;

progress of, in Europe, 8, 30;

opposed by the Jesuits, 90, 95, 235;

results of, in Germany, 199

Regalisti of the Court of Rome, 363

Regeneration, doctrine of, 18

Relics, restoration of, in Germany, 199, 200

Religion of the Jesuits, 194;

taught in schools, 216;

superstitions of the, 308

Republic, veneration of the Romans for the, 366

—— Venetian, Jesuits expelled from the, 227

Reservation, mental, encouraged in confession, 244

Restrictions imposed on the Jesuits in France, 177

Revolution of 1688, in England, 294;

causes of the, ibid.

—— of 1830, prepared by the Jesuits, 454;

causes of the, 457

—— French, conduct of the Jesuits in the, 436, 455

Revolution in Rome, 170, 171;

causes of the, 475;

results of the, 476, 477

Rheims, Jesuit college at, 168

Ricci, General, 348;

efforts of, to save the Society, 357;

denies the wealth of the Jesuits, 410;

is sent prisoner to the Castle of St. Angelo, 411;

death of, 430

Richelieu, Cardinal, 233;

Jesuit influence under, 266, 267

Riots in England, 169

Rochelle, siege of, 270

Rodolph II, persecutes the Protestants in Germany, 201

Rodriguez, conversion of, to Jesuitism, 23;

mission of, to Portugal, 59;

recall of, 82

Romanism, restored in Germany, 201

—— in Poland, 202

—— in Sweden, 203

Romans, opposition of, to the Jesuits, 472;

gallant defence of their country by, 476

Rome, charitable institutions of, 59;

opposition to the Jesuits in, 89;

Jesuit influence in, 384;

return of the Jesuits to, 447;

the ruin of England desired by, 465;

Jesuits expelled from, 473;

civil wars in, 475;

entered by the French, 478, 479

Rosaries, use of, vindicated, 249

Rossi, mission of, to Rome, 457, 458

Rules for the admission of Postulants, 31, 32, 37

—— for the expulsion of members, 42

—— of the Inquisition, 61

—— of the Jesuit schools, 213, 215

—— to be observed in making saints, 257, 262

Russia, Jesuits protected in, 423, 430;

progress of the Society in, 432;

Jesuits expelled from, by Alexander, 433-435

S.

Saints, Catholic, requisitions for, 14

—— Jesuit, 35, 257;

canonization of, 258-262, 301 n.;

number of, at the suppression of the Order, 408

Saldanha, Cardinal, censures the Jesuits, 338

Salmeron, mission of, to Ireland, 64

Saragossa, opposition to the Jesuits in, 81

Sardinia, Jesuit King of, 448

Scholastics, or, Scholars, 44;

Classification of, 49;

vows of the, ibid.;

mode of training, 214, 215;

studies of the, 221

School of St. Cyran, 233

Schoolmasters, Jesuit, 216

Schools of the Order, 39;

professors of the, 196;

code of legislation for, 213;

masters of the, 217;

influence of the, 455

—— for the poor, 197;

servants educated in, 455

Sicily, Jesuits in, 433

Scotland, missions of the Jesuits to, 152;

their influence in, 169

Secreta Monita, the, 250;

reason why they are believed to be apocryphal, 251

Secret Class of the Jesuits, 45, 462;

supposed members of, in England, 464

Sherwin, trial and execution of, 163

Siege of Paris, 184

Siestrencewiecz, 431

Sigismond, King of Sweden, supports the Jesuits, 195;

is nominated their King, 202;

succeeds John III, 205

Silesia, Jesuits in, 424, 425

Simoncelli, 484

Simony, sin of, 373, 374

Sin, Jesuit notions of, 238

Sinigallia, execution at, 481, 484

Sixtus V, 184;

supports the League, 188;

takes part with Acquaviva, 211

Sisters of Port Royal, 233;

persecution of, 274

—— of the Sacred Heart, 455

Society of Jesus, 24;

founders of the, 29;

constitution of the, 44, 316, 318;

great change in the policy of the, 224;

overgrowing influence of, 253;

authenticity of the, 263;

attachment of members to the, 321;

destruction of, 325;

reformation of, 346;

suppression of, 374;

progress of the, 407;

origin of, 408;

re-establishment of, 439;

character of, 494

—— established in Spain, 209;

abolished from Spain, 350

—— abolished in France, 348

Sovereignty, supported by the Jesuits, 195;

Jesuit doctrine of, 493

Spain, success of the Jesuits in, 62;

oppositions raised against them in, 78;

works of the Inquisition in, 148;

General Acquaviva’s influence in, 228, 274;

political reform encouraged in, 331;

American possessions of, exchanged with Portugal, 333;

Jesuits expelled from, 350;

restored to, 450

Speculations, commercial, of the Jesuits, 336

Spies of the Jesuits, 35;

payment of, 45

Spiritual Exercises, origin of the book of, 15;

quotations from the, 16-20;

opinions of Cardinal Wiseman on the, ibid.;

the work submitted to the Inquisition, 89

Squillace, Minister of Spain, 331

St. Bartholomew’s Eve, 159

St. Cyran, Abbot of, 232;

school of, 233

St. Petersburg, Jesuits expelled from, 434

St. Thomas, theology of, 230

States of the Church, seized from the Jesuits, 359;

miserable condition of the, 479

—— Roman, political trials in the, 482

—— Venetian, expulsion of the Jesuits from the, 227;

their return to the, 228

Stoneyhurst, settlement of the Jesuits at, 459, 460

Styria, Jesuits in, 452

Sully, on the recall of the Jesuits to France, 225, 226

Superiors, appointment of, 49;

duties of, 55;

immorality of, 319

Superstitions of the Jesuits, 197

Suppression of the Jesuits, 380-383;

powers united in the accomplishment of the, 386;

brief for the, 387, 406;

conduct of the Jesuits during the period of, 422

Sweden, teachings of the Jesuits in, 194;

becomes a Romish province, 203;

restoration of, to the Protestants, 204

Switzerland, dawn of the Reformation in, 8;

invaded by the Jesuits, 450, 458;

Jesuits established in, 306

T.

Tambourini, elected General, 325

Tanucci, Minister of Spain, 331

Tavora, Marquis of, accused of assassinating the king, 340;

persecution of the family of, ibid.

—— Marchioness of, executed, 341

Theatines, origin and doctrines of the Order, 25

Theologians, Jesuit, 235

Theology of the Jesuits, 230

Thiers, Jesuits opposed by, 457

Thirty Years’ War, 278;

advantages derived by the Jesuits from the, 279

Thomists, doctrines of the, 232

Tilly, 278

Toledo, opposition to the Jesuits in, 80

Torrigiani, Cardinal, 339

Tournon, Cardinal, Pope’s Legate to India, 114;

decree of, forbidding Malabar rites, 115-117;

mission of, to China, 123;

banishment of, 125;

imprisonment and death of, 127

Transgression, doctrine of, 238

Trials, political, in the Roman States, 482-484

Tuscany, Jesuits in, 486;

persecution of Christians in, 487

U.

Universities, Jesuit, 196

University of Cracow, letter of, addressed to the University of Louvain, 281

—— of Louvain, 281

Urban VIII, Pope, 233

V.

Vasquez, Gabriel, on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 192

Venice, Jesuit power in, 227

Verger de Hauranne, Abbot of St. Cyran, 232

Verona, persecution of Protestants at, 477

Vicar-General, appointment of, 320

—— —— of Russia, 431

Vienna, Jesuit schools of, 197

Virgin Mary, the worship of, taught by the Jesuits, 247-250

Vitelleschi elected General of the Order, 256;

character of, 316;

influence of the General’s decline during his Generalate, 317

Voltaire, character of, 347

Vows of the Coadjutors, 56

—— Jesuits, 24, 26;

formula of the, 47

—— Novices, 46

—— Professed, 51, 52

—— Scholars, 46

Voyages of Lainez, 143

W.

Waldenses, characteristics of the, 206;

persecution of, by the Jesuits, 207, 453

Wall, Minister of Spain, 431

Walsingham aids Parry’s conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, 166

War between Sweden and Poland, 205

—— declared against Rome, 422

Wars of the Jesuits, 278, 279, 422

Wars, Civil, in France, 179;

origin of the, ibid.;

projected by the Pope, 182;

termination of the, 183

—— in Rome, 475-480

—— in Switzerland, 206, 458;

instigated by the Jesuits, ibid.

Wealth of the Jesuits, 39, 408;

means by which it is acquired, 40, 42, 150, 279;

effects of the, 82;

estimate of 409, 491;

sources of, ibid.

Weeks of spiritual exercises, 16-18

Weld, Mr., estates in England presented to the Jesuits by, 459;

son of, enters the Order, 460

West Indies, commerce of the Jesuits in the, 336

White Russia, Jesuits in, 430, 433

Wilna, persecution of the Protestants in, 280

William, King of Nassau, treachery of the Jesuits to, 453

Wiseman, Cardinal, on the “Spiritual Exercises,” 16;

mission of, to England, 64

Worship of images encouraged, 249

—— of the Virgin Mary inculcated by the Jesuits, 247

Writers, Jesuit, 222

Writings of the Jesuits, 224, 247

X.

Xavier, Francis, a Companion of the Order, 23;

mission of, to Portugal, 59;

character of, 98;

mission of, to India, 99, 100;

his conduct at Goa, 101;

his mission to the coast of Malabar, 103;

to China, 105;

exertions of, to convert idolators, 102;

illness and death of, 106;

canonization of, 257, 262

Ximenes, Cardinal, college erected by, at Alcala, 22

Y.

Year, secular, solemnization of the, 263

Yorkshire, estates in, presented to the Jesuits, 459, 460

Z.

Zelanti, of the Court of Rome, 363

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Notes in this chapter

Note 11 · Hel. Hist. des Ord. Mon., Rel. et Mil. tome vii. p. 463.Note 13 · Once for all, I promise my readers that I am not going to trouble them with the narrative of all the miraculous legends related concerning LNote 1 · These famous Constitutions were composed by Loyola in the Spanish language. They were not at first the perfect system we now find them; and Note 36 · It is well known that in France the Roman Catholic clergymen are divided into ultramontane and Gallican; that the latter, under Louis PhilipNote 37 · Father Maldonat propounded a doctrine, that no one remained in purgatory longer than ten years; and this, in order to assure the princes thaNote 42 · This Council was so called because it was composed of sixteen members, representing the sixteen quarters of Paris; and it possessed the suprNote 46 · How Elizabeth deplored this unprincipled act! “Ah, what grief,” she wrote to him after his apostasy, “and what regrets and what groans I havNote 4 · To ascertain whether every one goes to the confessional every other Saturday, each boarder receives a card with his own name written on it, Note 5 · Crét. vol. iv. p. 226.Note 2 · This man is famous for working miracles. He is said to have restored to life his dear companion, a pig, which had been stolen from him, afteNote 4 · This congregation, as well as all the others, such as those of indulgences, of inquisition, &c., is composed of cardinals, bishops, prelatesNote 15 · A lettre de cachet was an order bearing the king’s signature, generally requiring the arrest or exile of the person specified. Under the reiNote 40 · Oldcorne was executed on the 17th of April 1606, Garnet on the 3d of May of the same year.Note 11 · I forgot to mention, in speaking of the canonisation of saints, that, in general, many years are allowed to pass after obtaining a title of Note 12 · The office of this personage in the canonisation is to raise, pro forma, objections to its accomplishment, by questioning the virtue of the Note 8 · In Italy, the monasteries of the orders called mendicant are the refuge of three peculiar classes of persons. The first class of those who rNote 2 · We have to lament the decease of this illustrious Italian, which has happened while we were writing these pages. His country has not forgott
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