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Antoine Lavalette, French priest, slave-owning missionary in Martinique whose unpaid debts contributed to the Jesuits being banned in France in 1764; Pierre de Lauzon, superior of the Jesuits in New France; Włodzimierz Ledóchowski, Polish Superior General of the Society of Jesus
The saints of the Society of Jesus (also known as the Jesuits) are listed here alphabetically. The list includes Jesuit saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since the founder of the Jesuits, St Ignatius of Loyola, was canonised in 1622, there have been 52 other Jesuits canonised. [1
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ ʒ u ɪ t s, ˈ dʒ ɛ zj u-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; [2] Latin: Iesuitae), [3] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From Academy to University 1789-1889 (Georgetown UP, 1993). Cushner, Nicholas P. Soldiers of God: The Jesuits in Colonial America, 1565-1767 (2002) 402 pp. Garraghan, Gilbert J. The Jesuits Of The Middle United States (3 vol 1938) covers Midwest from 1800 to 1919 vol 1 online, ; vol 2; vol 3
The Society published Orange County Medical History (1927), [4] [5] the Centennial Bibliography of Orange County (1989), Don Meadows’ The House of Bernardo Yorba (1963), Wayne Gibson’s The Olive Mill (1975), and Virginia Carpenter’s Cañada de la Brea: Ghost Rancho (1978). [3] In 1973, the Society launched the journal Orange Countiana. [6]
Saint Robert Bellarmine SJ, writer of the Disputationes de controversiis christianae fidei. Luis de Molina (1535–1600); Gabriel Vasquez (1551–1604); Enrique Henríquez (1536–1608)
1563 – Jesuit missionary Luis Frois, who will later write a history of Jesuit activity in Japan, arrives in that country; Ōmura Sumitada becomes the first daimyō (feudal landholder) to convert to Christianity; 1564 – Legazpi begins Augustinian work in Philippine Islands [133] [134] 1565 – Jesuits arrive in Macau.
Jesuit priests at the time of their solemn and final profession in the Society of Jesus promise to "never strive or ambition, not even indirectly, to be chosen or promoted to any prelacy or dignity in or outside the Society; and I will do my best never to consent to my election unless I am forced to do so by obedience to him who can order me ...