The Society of Jesus is a religious order of the Catholic church established by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1540. It is an all-male order or priests called Jesuits. There are approximately 15,000 members of the Society of Jesus around the world today....
The Chinese Mission without Jesuits: The Suppression and Restoration of the Society of Jesus in ChinaSTANDAERT, NICOLASChing Feng: A Journal on Christianity & Chinese Religion & Culture
The Jesuit mission was safe under the Spanish law but the 1750 Treaty of Madrid, reassign the land in South America to the Portuguese. Since, the portuguese law allows slavery, they wanted to enslave the Guarani. The Jesuits mission was upset and fought for the Guarani. As a result, Papal...
"a sending abroad" (as an agent), originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative… See origin and meaning of mission.
Because of the Jesuits’ opposition to slavery and their strong defense of the papacy, the Order was already a political target in some European countries. If the missions succeeded in openly thwarting the Portuguese in South America, some officials feared that the Portuguese government would ...
The Chinese instruments were lavishly illustrated, moreover, in 105 woodcuts that contained detailed representations of their processes of construction. It is argued that these illustrations not only give us valuable insights into what the technical Jesuits did in Peking, but show how sixteenth- and...
Ignatian spirituality, exemplified in the spiritual Exercises and illustrated in recent documents of the 35th General Congregation of the Jesuits, can help to develop a modern Christianity that engages both a christologically centered faith and its shape in the modern world. 展开 ...
.2The 1581 Act imposed a fine of £20 a month on Catholic recusants — a huge leap from the normal 12 pence.3Obviously the authorities had become uneasy following the arrival in 1580 of the Jesuits Edmund Campion and Robert Persons, who challenged the Elizabethan regime’s legitimacy by ...
Peter Kenney, SJ, 1779–1841: The Restoration of the Jesuits in Ireland, England, Sicily, and North America, written by Thomas Morrissey In 2014, to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus by Pope Pius vii, Catholic University of America Press re-issued...
Jesuit missionaries arrived in China at the end of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). They traveled to Beijing (Peking) via Guangzhou (Canton). The best known of these Jesuits was Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) Ricci was a gifted Italian mathematician who arrived in China (1588) and settled in ...