Showing posts with label Jesuit History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesuit History. Show all posts
Friday, June 6, 2014

The Jesuit Elephant

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It seems that elephants roamed the Philippines not just in prehistoric times but as late as the 17th century, as Jesuit Ignacio Francisco...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Fr. William Doyle, S.J. Chaplain Of The Battle of Ypres "They Speak His Name With Tears"

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By Father William Joseph Doyle, S.J . [The following letter, written by Father William Doyle a few days before he was killed during th...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

The Eight Jesuits Say "We Believe That We Survived Because We Were Living The Message Of Fatima. We Lived And Prayed The Rosary Daily In That Home."

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Father Hubert Shiffer was one of these eight Jesuit survivors. He was 30 when the atomic bomb exploded at Hiroshima and lived another 33 y...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Fr. James Martin, S.J. On The Sacking Of Padro Arrupe By Blessed John Paul The Great

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I had my differences with Pope John Paul II , technically my former boss.  (Who doesn't disagree with the boss from time to time?) ...

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Superior General Pedro Arrupe, S.J . in a written response to the Holy Father Pope John Paul II "On regrettable shortcomings of the...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Monday Of 1859

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Notre Dame de Paris It would be difficult to form an idea of the crowd of men that besiege the houses of the Jesuits toward the end ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Fr. Herbert Thurston, S.J. On Good Friday

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There is every reason to believe that these solemn prayers in our Good Friday service date back at least to the time of John Cassian and...
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St. Ignatius, As The Servant Of God

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Saint Ignatius came back from St. Paul's this bright Easter week in April, on a Friday, one of the greatest men of modern days. The wo...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Jesuit History Up For Sale In Arizona

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The owners of a historic southern Arizona ranch where past guests include President Lyndon B. Johnson and John Wayne said Wednesday they ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

On The Restoration Of The Society Of Jesus

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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus. For 41 years the Jesuits were in the darkness of suppre...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

The Typus Mundi

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The titlepage of the Typus mundi says: RR.C.S.I.A. These initials represent 'Rhetoribus Collegij Societatis Iesv Antuerp' 1 , the...
Monday, December 9, 2013

A Jesuit On The Creche

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'Christ plays in 10,000 faces' Crèche exhibit casts new light on message of Jesus' Nativity CLAUDIA BAYLISS For some ma...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

200 Year Anniversary

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The miracle of Pope Pius VII 'levitating' at Mass on 15 August 1811 The superior general of the Society of Jesus, the Church’s...

His Excellency The Marquis of Pombal, "The Slayer Of The Jesuits"

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POMBAL. "EL MATADOR DOS PADRES." In one of the principal squares of Lisbon may be seen the statue of King Jose...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

William Crichton, S.J.. "Gulielmus Crichtonius, Societatis Jesu Presbyter"

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William Crichton, a learned member of the Society of the Jesuits, who, after a life devoted to the propagation of his faith, died at Leyd...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Jesuit Blessed To Become Saint Peter Faber, S.J.

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'MOTU PROPRIO' FOR THE WELL-BELOVED JESUIT' One of Francis's decisions that is certainly personal is that of proceeding ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Nomina Sacra

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A Christogram is a combination of letters (a monogram) that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ. A monogram consists of li...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Fr Anton Puntigam, S.J. And Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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The blood-splattered shirt of Archduke Franz Ferdinand , whose assassination in 1914 triggered the outbreak of the first world war , is to...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Karl Rahner, S.J, On The Issue Of The "Unchangeable" Teachings

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In 1948-9 Karl Rahner, S.J. returned to the theology faculty at Innsbruck and taught on a wide variety of topics which were to become the ...