Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju -/ 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.
In the United States the order used and trafficked enslaved people until the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865. The earliest known Jesuit community to use forced labor in what became the United States was a mission founded by French Jesuits in 1703 along the Kaskaskia River in Illinois.
1540. Jesuit order established. In Rome, the Society of Jesus—a Roman Catholic missionary organization—receives its charter from Pope Paul III. The Jesuit order played an important role in the...
History. Less than a century after the founding of our religious order, Jesuits began arriving on the shores of America. French Jesuits explored the woodlands of Maine and celebrated, in 1611, the first known Mass on American soil, at the mouth of the Kennebec River.
The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius Loyola and his companions. The mission of the Jesuits is a mission of justice and reconciliation, working so that women and men can be reconciled with God, with themselves, with each other and with God’s creation.
Read on to learn how Jesuits established such a significant presence nationwide, how the order became a mainstay in American education and the challenges the Society of Jesus faces in the 21st century.
new religious order. 1540 01/25 The birth of St. Edmund Campion. 1540 06/30 St. Francis Xavier arrived at Lisbon on his way to India. 1540 09/27 At the Palazzo San Marco in Rome, Pope Paul III signed the Bull “Regimini militantis ecclesiae,” establishing the Society of Jesus as a religious order.