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Amazing Versatility of the Society of Jesus volutions; persecutions have fallen on the Exercises to the people at large in bodies in the Church; and violent attacks have popular missions, or to select to the clergy been made on the Society of Jesus, special retreat houses, or sexes. The culminating in its suppression for forty and to religious of both organ.i. years in all lands except in the pro- Society directs such world-wide of Prayer vince of White Russia. Arid then the sations as the Apostleship Blessed Virgin. the of the Sodality and from if Society of Jesus rose again, as itself at the the tomb, to continue its battle on be- And all the time ittheholds for Father Holy half of Christ and His Church, and at special disposal of Though the present day it counts more mem- any work to which he calls it. world is the bers than any other religious Order the number of Jesuits in large, and is steadily increasing, they under a single General. made demands the with cannot cope The Society of Jesus To-Day. upon them. As always, the harvest Perhaps the most dramatic event in is great and the labourers comparathe history of the Society of Jesus was tively few. its suppression in 1773, a small continJesuits in the East. gent remaining undisturbed under the When Francis Xavier died in 15.52 on protection of the Russian Government. SAINT IGNA1TUS. the little island of San Cian, it was and In 1813 the Society was restored, os then the, number of its members with his eyes on China, that land to be men not only of intensely religi- since steadily increased, the present mystery and missionary promise, which ous character, but also of a high edu- has It enter. long to so for being over 26,000. The Soci- he had tried cational standing. A tremendous pro- number was not till another thirty years had is divided into some fifty Provinces ety the at him confronted therefore, blem, most of these hav- passed that Jesuits were able to settle outset, for be himself, like the warlike and Vice-Provinces, their care one or more in the Portuguese colony of Macao, cavaliers of his time, had had an edu- ing under Each Province has and from there penetrate as far as Can. cation of the most elementary kind. Foreign Missions. China, the real at its bead a Provincial, and all are ton, but the centre of way He was not a man to shrink from difoff. government of the China, was still a long He would undergo a course under the central ficulties. famous Apostle that the then It was at Rome. It would be of studies, he would attend the univer- Father General arrived S.J., Ricci, Father activiChina, of the all enumerate sities, and qualify himself for the task impossible toSociety. First in honour on the mission. After many earnest the that lay before him. After years of ties of the not penetrated, Ricci work of the Foreign Mis- efforts, Father patient preparation in the schools of comes on which a total of about 4,000 only to the closely guarded city of sions, and Salamanca, Alcala, Barcelona, the of the Society are engaged. Pekin, and to the holiest centre of Paris-more than ten year's in all-he members imperial Palace, but also to the heart is the work of the Society knelt with nine companions in a chapel Well known education. first the was He the Emperor. part of In every for Catholic ,,n the hill of Montmartre in the year to the heart of of the world there are Jesuit schools foreigner to penetrate 1534, and with them bound himself by also di- China, and was admitted to a famiSociety the and -colleges, and and vow to the service of Jesus Christ that was de. the Emperor with and universities. liarity The Company-or, as rects many seminariesattached His Church. to scien- nied even to the highest Mandarins. He Great importance is we commonly call it, the Society-of and there are many well- astounded the Court with his learning, Jesus had been formed. It formally tific work, observatories in various particularly in the mathematical sci. began in the year 1534, during Mass known Jesuitworld. Jesuits are active ences which they held in such high re. the of parts overlooking Montmartre, of hill on the He reformed their calendar, the number of per- Bard. One of the nine companions of also as writers, and Paris, scientific, and thereby enabled the Court AsIgnatius was the great St. Francis iodicals they edit-literary, into hundreds. tronomers to predict the solar eclipses. Xavier; another was Blessed Peter and religiouS-runs the re Every Jesuit priest is expected to be Many conversions were made asextraor. Faber. the weapon of the suit of the preaching of this Four hundred years have elapsed able to handle was by no path his Exercises of St. Ignatius, and dinary man, !hough since then; the world has witnessed a Spiritual (Continued on Page 4.) is done by the giving of good untold re and wars through change wonderful -
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