[WORKS CONSULTED]
- Institutum Societatis Jesu.
- Jouvancy — Epitome historiæ Societatis Jesu.
- Jouvancy — Monumenta Societatis Jesu.
- Crétineau-Joly — Hist. relig., pol. et litt. de la Comp. de Jésus.
- B. N. — The Jesuits: their foundation and history.
- Rosa, I Gesuiti dalle origini ai nostri giorni.
- Meschler, Die Gesellschaft Jesu.
- Böhmer-Monod — Les Jésuites.
- Feval, — Les Jésuites.
- Huber — Der Jesuitenorden.
- Duhr — Jesuiten-Fabeln.
- Brou — Les Jésuites et la légende.
- Belloc, Pascal's Provincial Letters.
- Foley — Jesuits in Conflict.
- Fouqueray — Histoire de la compagnie de Jésus en France.
- Bournichon — La Compagnie de Jésus en France: 1814-1914.
- Albers — Liber sæcularis ab anno 1814 ad annum 1914.
- Tacchi-Venturi — Storia della compagnia di Gesù in Italia.
- Monti — La Compagnia di Gesù.
- Duhr — Geschichte der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutschen Zunge.
- Kroess — Geschichte der böhmischen Provinz der Gesellschaft Jesu.
- Astrain — Hist. de la Comp. de Jesús en la asist. de España.
- Hughes — History of the Society of Jesus of North America.
- Alegre — La Compañía de Jesús en la Nueva España.
- Frias — La Provincia de España de la compañía de Jesús, 1815-63.
- Pollard — The Jesuits in Poland.
- Hogan — Ibernia Ignatiana.
- Tanner — Societas Jesu præclara.
- Lives of Jesuit Saints.
- Menologies of the Society of Jesus.
- Southwell — Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu.
- Sommervogel — Bibl. des écrivains de la comp. de Jésus.
- Chandlery — Fasti breviores Societatis Jesu.
- Maynard — The Studies and Teachings of the Society of Jesus.
- Daniel — Les Jésuites instituteurs.
- Weld — Suppression of the Society of Jesus in Portugal.
- De Ravignan — De l'existence et de l'institut des Jésuites.
- De Ravignan — Clément XIII et Clément XIV.
- Theiner — Geschichte des Pontifikats Klemens XIV.
- Artaud de Montor — Histoire du pape Pie VII.
- Carayon — Documents inédits concernants la Compagnie de Jésus.
- Bertrand — Mémoires sur les missions.
- Brou — Les Missions du xixe siècle.
- Seaman — Map of Jesuit Missions in the United States.
- Marshall — Christian Missions.
- Bancroft — Native Races of the Pacific States.
- Campbell — Pioneer Priests of North America.
- Charlevoix — Histoire du Japon.
- Charlevoix — Histoire du Paraguay.
- Charlevoix — Histoire de la Nouvelle-France.
- Crasset — Histoire de l'église du Japon.
- Avril — Voyage en divers états d'Europe et d'Asie.
- Thwaites — Jesuit Relations.
- Bolton — Kino's Historical Memoir.
- Janssen — History of the German People.
- Lavisse — Histoire de France.
- Ranke — History of the Popes.
- Lingard — History of England.
- Tierney-Dodd — Church History of England.
- Pollen — The Institution of the Archpriest Blackwell.
- Haile-Bonney — Life and Letters of John Lingard.
- Pollock — The Popish Plot.
- Guilday — English Catholic Refugees on the Continent.
- MacGeoghegan — History of Ireland.
- Flanagan — Ecclesiastical History of Ireland.
- O'Reilly — Lives of the Irish Martyrs and Confessors.
- Rochefort — Histoire des Antilles.
- Eyzaguirre — Historia de Chile.
- Tertre — Histoire de St. Christophe.
- Rohrbacher — History of the Church.
- Hübner — Sixte-Quint.
- Huc — Christianity in China, Tartary and Tibet.
- Robertson — History of Charles V.
- Shea — The Catholic Church in Colonial Days.
- Pacca — Memorie storiche del ministero.
- Sainte-Beuve — Causeries.
- Petit de Julleville — Histoire de la littérature française.
- Godefroy — Littérature française.
- Schlosser — History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
- Cantü — Storia universale.
- The Cambridge Modern History, Vols. VIII, XII.
- The Month.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, passim.
- The Encyclopedia Britannica, passim.
- Realencyclopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, passim.
THE JESUITS
1534-1921
[CHAPTER I]
ORIGIN
The Name — Opprobrious meanings — Caricatures of the Founder — Purpose of the Order — Early life of Ignatius — Pampeluna — Conversion — Manresa — The Exercises — Authorship — Journey to Palestine — The Universities — Life in Paris — First Companions — Montmartre First Vows — Assembly at Venice. Failure to reach Palestine — First Journey to Rome — Ordination to the Priesthood — Labors in Italy — Submits the Constitutions for Papal Approval — Guidiccioni's opposition — Issue of the Bull Regimini — Sketch of the Institute — Crypto-Jesuits.
The name "Jesuit" has usually a sinister meaning in the minds of the misinformed. Calvin is accused of inventing it, but that is an error. It was in common use two or three centuries before the Reformation, and generally it implied spiritual distinction. Indeed, in his famous work known as "The Great Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ," which appeared somewhere about 1350, the saintly old Carthusian ascetic, Ludolph of Saxony, employs it in a way that almost provokes a smile. He tells his readers that "just as we are called Christians when we are baptized, so we shall be called Jesuits when we enter into glory." Possibly such a designation would be very uncomfortable even for some pious people of the present day. The opprobrious meaning of the word came into use at the approach of the Protestant Reformation. Thus, when laxity in the observance of their rule began to show itself in the once fervent followers of St. John Columbini — who were called Jesuati, because of their frequent use of the expression: "Praised be Jesus Christ" — their name fixed itself on the common speech as a synonym of hypocrisy. Possibly that will explain the curious question in the "Examen of Conscience" in an old German prayer-book, dated 1519, where the penitent is bidden to ask himself: "Did I omit to teach the Word of God for fear of being called a Pharisee, a Jesuit, a hypocrite, a Beguine?"
The association of the term Jesuit with Pharisee and hypocrite is unpleasant enough, but connecting it with Beguine is particularly offensive. The word Beguine had come to signify a female heretic, a mysticist, an illuminist, a pantheist, who though cultivating a saintly exterior was credited with holding secret assemblies where the most indecent orgies were indulged in. The identity of the Beguines with Jesuits was considered to be beyond question, and one of the earliest Calvinist writers informed his co-religionists that at certain periods the Jesuits made use of mysterious and magical devices and performed a variety of weird antics and contortions in subterraneous caverns, from which they emerged as haggard and worn as if they had been struggling with the demons of hell (Janssen, Hist. of the German People, Eng. tr., IV, 406-7). Unhappily, at that time, a certain section of the association of Beguines insisted upon being called Jesuits. There were many variations on this theme when the genuine Jesuits at last appeared. In Germany they were denounced as idolaters and libertines, and their great leader Canisius was reported to have run away with an abbess. In France they were considered assassins and regicides; Calvin called them la racaille, that is, the rabble, rifraff, dregs. In England they were reputed political plotters and spies. Later, in America, John Adams, second President of the United States, identified them with Quakers and resolved to suppress them. Cotton Mather or someone in Boston denounced them as grasshoppers and prayed for the east wind to sweep them away; the Indians burned them at the stake as magicians, and the Japanese bonzes insisted that they were cannibals, a charge repeated by Charles Kingsley, Queen Victoria's chaplain, who, in "Westward Ho," makes an old woman relate of the Jesuits first arriving in England that "they had probably killed her old man and salted him for provision on their journey to the Pope of Rome." No wonder Newman told Kingsley to fly off into space.