As the society was originally established by Paul III in 1540, and was abolished by Clement XIV in 1773, it thus appears that considerably more than one-half the period of its existence had been spent in open and flagrant resistance to the authority of the popes and the Church—a pregnant fact, which no sophistry can palliate or explain. But as our inquiries proceed, there will be other years of resistance to add to these, along with such combinations of circumstances as show how the society became odious to the Christian world, and how rightfully it was dissolved.
FOOTNOTES:
[111] Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 303.
[112] Steinmetz, Vol. III, p. 474. Citing the Jesuit Fathers De Bourges and Martin.
[113] Ibid., p. 489.
[114] Steinmetz, Vol. III, p. 490, and note 1, where these authorities are cited.
[115] Ibid., p. 491.
[116] Steinmetz, Vol. III, p. 467.
[117] Daurignac, Vol. I, pp. 336-367.
[118] Daurignac, p. 53.