Society of Jesus

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Cultural formation Mary Ward
Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits and with the Papal Curia were often difficult...
Cultural formation Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH entered the noviciate of the Jesuits , as a step towards joining the Order; at this time he symbolically burned many of his poems—but he first sent some copies to Robert Bridges .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
death John Oliver Hobbes
A requiem mass was held for JOH at the JesuitChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, with an address given by Hobbes's friend Monsignor William Francis Brown . She was buried...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, commented that GFalways writes with grace and tenderness, but she is afraid to trust herself to her own gifts. She seems to have a...
Literary Setting Selina Bunbury
This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits ) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded.
Rafroidi, Patrick. Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period (1789-1850). Humanities Press, 1980, 2 vols.
2: 83
The narrator describes how a mother who had...
politics Mary Ward
She received her instructions with great clarity in an experience akin to a vision.
Peters, Henriette. Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation. Translator Butterworth, Helen, Gracewing Books, 1994.
114-15
Her rule was to parallel that of the Jesuits . It was to be distinctive in its non-enclosure and in...
Author summary Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH , whose desire to publish his poetry was frustrated in his Victorian lifetime by his Jesuit superiors, was first published in 1918 by his trusted friend and informal archivist Robert Bridges . During the...
Residence Gerard Manley Hopkins
It was the custom of the Society of Jesus that every Jesuit should be moved to a different position annually, to prevent the development of worldly ties. GMH found this frequent uprooting very hard to...
Textual Features Winefrid Thimelby
WT keeps in close touch with family members through her letters, expressing her sense of involvement through her anxiety for Jesuit brothers travelling invisibly around England, or her concern for the different problems of a...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
EW published his first historical biography, that of Edmund Campion , whom one of his reviewers called the most attractive of the Jesuits who suffered under Queen Elizabeth 's penal administration.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(3 October 1935): 606
Textual Production Frances Trollope
FT published the three-volume anti-Jesuit , arguably anti-Catholic novelFather Eustace: A Tale of the Jesuits.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Garland, 1975.
prelims
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
230
Textual Production Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH won the Poetry Prize at Highgate School in 1860, the year he turned sixteen. He was still writing as an undergraduate at Oxford in 1863-7. But when he became a Jesuit in 1868 he...
Textual Production Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins began writing poetry again after becoming a Jesuit on officially-sanctioned religious topics, like the praise of the Virgin Mary.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Anne Barker
This magazine reflected its editor's wide interests. Along with items on the Jesuits , on church fathers, on Helping London's Poor, it included articles on travel and pets, authors and composers.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
170
Unusually...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Lennox
Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor , and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates . While pregnant with her son Edward she...

Timeline

16 August 1534: St Ignatius Loyola, then an officer of Ferdinand...

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16 August 1534

St Ignatius Loyola , then an officer of Ferdinand V of Spain , laid the foundation (at Paris) for the Jesuits , also known as the Society of Jesus or the Order of Jesus.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
696-7

27 September 1540: A Papal Bull officially established the Order...

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27 September 1540

A Papal Bull officially established the Order of the Jesuits at a maximum of sixty members.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697

1554: Juana of Austria, sister of Philip II of...

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1554

Juana of Austria , sister of Philip II of Spain, was secretly accepted into the Jesuit order under the false name Mateo Sanchez.
Padberg, John. “Secret, Perilous Project: A Woman Jesuit”. Company Magazine.
Wright, Jonathan. God’s Soldiers. Doubleday, 2004.
52

1579: For the first time in Elizabeth's reign,...

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1579

For the first time in Elizabeth 's reign, the Jesuits were expelled from England.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697

Easter Saturday 1605: Luisa de Carvajal, a Roman Catholic nun of...

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Easter Saturday 1605

Luisa de Carvajal , a Roman Catholic nun of noble Spanish family, landed at Dover as a missionary or activist at the behest of English Jesuits . While in London she wrote revealing letters about the city.
Alberge, Dalya. “It’s dirty and lawless. The food’s terrible—London circa 1605”. Times online, 23 Sept. 2008.

By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...

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By November 1700

The recently founded SPCK opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper for three pounds...

1764: The Order of Jesuits was suppressed in France,...

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1764

The Order of Jesuits was suppressed in France, and its property confiscated.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697

21 July 1773: The Order of Jesuits was abolished by Pope...

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21 July 1773

The Order of Jesuits was abolished by Pope Clement XIV ; they took refuge in Prussia, where their presence fed English anti-Catholicism.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697

7 August 1814: Pope Pius VII re-established the order of...

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7 August 1814

Pope Pius VII re-established the order of the Jesuits , and Roman Catholic missionary work began again with vigour.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
336
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
64, 83
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1822: A Jesuit periodical began publication in...

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1822

A Jesuit periodical began publication in English, bearing the title Annals of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
337

13 April 1829: The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received...

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13 April 1829

The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
885
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
278-9, 333
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
21
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
8
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
65
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
“Our history in Britain”. The Jesuits in Britain.

1831-1846: Pope Gregory XVI established a framework...

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1831-1846

Pope Gregory XVI established a framework for organized Jesuit activity, formally creating a huge number of vicariates across the world.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
338, 342-3

1851: In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or,...

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1851

In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or, a Spy in the Family, Jemima Luke presents a Roman Catholic young woman, Marie, taken in by a Protestant family, where she makes all kinds of trouble.
Peschier, Diana. “Vulnerable Women and the Danger of Gliding Jesuits: England in the Nineteenth Century”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 281-0.
285-6

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