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List Of Jesuits
This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus. A * Piotr Abramowicz (1619-1697), Polish missionary *José de Acosta, Spanish historian; author of '' The Natural and Moral History of the Indies'' *Rodolfo Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India * François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist * Mateo Aimerich, Spanish philologist * Giacomo Maria Airoli, Italian Orientalist and scriptural commentator * Edward Alacampe, English philosopher; Procurator of Rome * Giulio Alenio, Italian missionary to China, called the "Confucius of the West" *Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin * Diego Francisco Altamirano, Spanish author * Charles Aylmer, Irish Jesuit, superior of the Dublin Residence *Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary to China *José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil *Saint Modeste Andlauer, martyred in China * Antal Andrassy, second Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius Loyola By Francisco Zurbaran
Ignatius is a male given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name Religious * Ignatius of Antioch (35–108), saint and martyr, Apostolic Father, early Christian bishop * Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, Ignatius of Constantinople (797–877), Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, Patriarch of Constantinople * Ignatios the Deacon (780/790 – after 845), Byzantine bishop and writer * Ignatius, List of Patriarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Primate of Bulgaria in 1272–1277 * Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807–1867), Russian Orthodox saint, bishop and ascetical writer * Ignatius of Jesus (1596–1667), Italian Catholic missionary friar * Ignatius of Laconi (1701–1781), Italian Catholic saint * Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), Basque Catholic saint and founder of the Society of Jesus * Ignatius of Moscow (1540–1620), Russian Orthodox Patriarch * Ignatius Moses I Daoud (or Moussa Daoud) (1930–2012), Syrian Catholic Patriarch * Ignatius Zakk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Francisco Altamirano
Diego Francisco Altamirano was a Jesuit and author, born at Madrid, 26 October 1625; died in Lima, 22 December 1715. Biography The son of an influential fiscal of the Council of Castile, he entered the Society of Jesus in March of 1642. Two years later he sailed to the Province of Paraguay, where he became rector of the Colegio Máximo of Córdoba, in 1666. He was chosen as procurator for the 1683 General Congregation, where Thyrsus González de Santalla was chosen as Superior General of the Society of Jesus. In 1688, he was selected as a visitor to the Jesuit province of the New Kingdom of Granada, that was waiting to be divided into two: New Granada and Quito; the division was made effective in 1696. Altamirano visited many of the key places for the Society of Jesus from the port of Cartagena, to Santafé de Bogotá and Quito. Altamirano reported the condition of the province, stating many faults that included malfunction of different Colegios in the New Kingdom of Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Arrowsmith
Edmund Arrowsmith ''(baptized as "Brian Arrowsmith")'', SJ (c. 1585 – 28 August 1628) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Catholic Church. The main source of information on Arrowsmith is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death. This document, conforming to the ancient style of the "Acts of martyrs" includes the story of the execution of another 17th-century recusant martyr, Richard Herst. Life Bryan Arrowsmith was born at Haydock, Lancashire, England, in 1585, the eldest child of Robert Arrowsmith, a yeoman farmer, who had served in Sir William Stanley's regiment which fought for Spain in the Low Countries. His mother was Margery Gerard, a member of the Lancashire Gerard family. Among his mother's relations was the priest John Gerard, who wrote ''The Diary of an Elizabethan Priest'', as well as another martyr, Miles Gerard. He was baptised Brian, but always used his confirmation name of Edmund, after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Degli Angeli
Francesco Degli Angeli (or Angelis) (Sorrento, 1567 – Colela, Ethiopia, 21 October 1628) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia. Life He entered the Society of Jesus in 1583. After two years (1602–04) spent in the mission of the Indies, he travelled to Ethiopia, where they called him "the man who was always cheerful". Angeli stood high in the favour of two successive Kings of Ethiopia. He made converts, among them the brother of the King and lords of the court, but did not succeed bringing about the reunion of the Abyssinian Church with the Roman Catholic Church, because of opposition from Ethiopian monks. For five years Angeli preached the Gospel among the Agazi where he founded a church and school. Works He translated many religious works into the language of the Agazi. The most important of them was the commentary of Maldonatus on the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. References ;Attribution * The entry cites: **CORDARA, Hist. Soc. Jes., par. VIa, lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September Massacres
The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people were killed by '' fédérés'', guardsmen, and ''sans-culottes'', with the support of gendarmes responsible for guarding the tribunals and prisons, the Cordeliers, the Committee of Surveillance of the Commune, and the revolutionary sections of Paris. With widespread fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris, and that the imprisoned Swiss mercenaries would be freed to join them, on 1 September the Legislative Assembly called for volunteers to gather the next day on the Champs de Mars. On 2 September, around 1:00 pm, Georges Danton delivered a speech in the assembly, stating: "We ask that anyone refusing to give personal service or to furnish arms shall be punished with death. The bell we are about to ring... sounds the charge on the enemies of our countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renatus Andrieux
Renatus Andrieux, SJ (1742–1792) was a French Jesuit. He was one of the victims of the September Massacres The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people were killed by '' fédérés'', gu ..., beatified in 1926. Sources Blessed René-Marie Andrieux 1742 births 1792 deaths French beatified people 18th-century French Jesuits French clergy killed in the French Revolution {{France-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Andrés
Juan Andrés y Morell (15 February 1740 in Planes, Alicante12 January 1817 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Christian humanist and literary critic of the Age of Enlightenment. He was the creator of world history and comparative literature (i.e. of Letters and Sciences of the eighteenth century) through the most important and extensive of his works: ''Dell'Origine, progressi e stato d'ogni attuale letteratura'' (1st ed. Italian, Parma, 1782–1799) – ''Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura'' (Madrid, 1784–1806, but was incomplete as it did not include the part devoted to the ecclesiastical sciences) only recently restored to a critical and complete edition. He is one of the most important authors, together with Lorenzo Hervás, Antonio Eximeno, Francisco Javier Clavijero or Celestino Mutis, of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century. Scholar He was considered an extraordinarily intellectual figure in the Europe of his time, but was ignored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Marie André
Yves Marie André (1675–1764), also known as le Père André, was a French Jesuit mathematician, philosopher, and essayist. André entered the Society of Jesus in 1693. Although distinguished in his scholastic studies, he adhered to Gallicanism and Jansenism and was thus considered unsuitable for responsible office by Church authorities. He therefore pursued scientific studies and became royal professor of mathematics at Caen. He is best known for his ''Essai sur le Beau'' (''Essay on Beauty''), a 1741 philosophical work on aesthetics, which made him famous at the time and remained a well-known work into the 19th century.André, ''Essai sur le Beau'' in ''Œuvres Philosophiques'' (Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1843). References External links Œuvres Philosophiques du Père AndréCollected works on the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antal Andrassy
Antal may refer to: * Andal, 8th-century poet saint of South India * Antal (given name) * Antal (surname) Antal is clan (gotra) of Jats found mainly in Punjab besides it is also surname of Hungarian origin.Notable people with the surname include: Female * Dana Antal (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player * Dóra Antal (born 1993), Hungarian water pol ... * 6717 Antal, a minor planet See also * Andal (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modeste Andlauer
The Martyr Saints of China ( zh, t=中華殉道聖人, s=中华殉道圣人, first=t, p=Zhōnghuá xùndào shèngrén), or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries from the mid-17th century to 1930 were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize. Many died in the Boxer Rebellion, in which anti-colonial peasant rebels slaughtered 30,000 Chinese converts to Christianity along with missionaries and other foreigners. In the ordinary form of the Latin Rite, they are remembered with an optional memorial on 9 July. The 17th and 18th centuries On 15 January, 1648, during the Manchu Invasion to Ming China, Manchu Tatars, invaded the region of Fujian and captured Francisco Fernández de Capillas, a Dominican priest aged 40. After having imprisoned and tortured him, they beheaded him while he recited with others the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and List of cities in Brazil by population, its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo ( Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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