Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Louis Bourdaloue preaching at the French Court at Versailles to Louis XLV politics took advantage of this. The French forms of Calvinism and those Catholics influenced by Calvinistic tendencies. Huguenots and Jansenists were vindictive. Blessed Claude de la Columbiere was the chosen helper of Saint Margaret Mary in spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This has been the chief devotion of the last few centuries to warm men s hearts. It is a devotion of reparation to the neglected love of the Redeemer and centers, of course, as do all Catholic devo- tions, around the Sacrifice of the Mass and Calvary. The French Jesuit, Louis Bourdaloue was one of the great orators of France, as was de Ravignan in a later day. The chief enemies of the Jesuits in France and Spain were the politicians of the Bourbon courts who by threats secured the suppression of the Order for one generation from 1773 until the early part of the 19th Century, when it was again restored throughout the world. 19

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the arguments of those who jumped the fence seem pate and puerile by comparison. Spain was also the fatherland of the Jesuit saint, Francis Borgia. At the age of thirty-six, this honored nobleman had deserted the royal court and entered the Society to become eventually its third General. Before he accepted the poverty and humility which Ignatius had enjoined upon all his followers, Francis had been the Marquis of Lombay, the Duke of Gandia, the Viceroy of Catalonia, and the dearest friend of the Emperor Charles V, the most powerful ruler on earth. The Society is inured to official expulsions, particularly from Spain. Saint Ignatius ' s dying prayer for the Company was that it should feel plenty of persecu- tion. Studying two necrologies which fell into our hands we find that in fifteen months, from October 1, 1936 through 1937, 70 Jesuits were shot in or near Barcelona, for many ‘‘date unknown.” E ducation in France was torn between the parent and the progeny, between the University of Paris and the Jesuits. The Uni- In France, Education and the Pulpit. The University and the Jes- uits. Nationalism and Calvinism against the Society. The Bolland- ists in Belgium. Sci- entific Hagiography. versity fought them — but then, in her old age, she had fought every other movement. Despite this, the Jesuits became the educators of 17th Century Frenchmen, good and bad. The records for 1643 give in the dis- trict of Paris alone 13,000 scholars of the Jesuit schools. The Jesuits were strong for the Pope across the mountains. The Gallicans or Na- tionalists in Religion naturally opposed them by and large through the centuries and 18

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In the 19th Century officially expelled from France by Freemasonry in 1830, 1845, 1880, 1901, many returned to fight for France in the first World War, many had remained, of course, in small houses The work of Maurice de temporary Theology. Cath- and of Education in Amer- Father Charmot. Father cal author and sociologist, in this country to merit in Fordham in 1939. The word Belgium re- ists who debunked the lives of the saints by generations of work in scientific hagiography. A mature young Frenchman about to enter upon his military service told us a few years ago he intended to join the Paris Province. Having abruptly left some Jesuit schools, he was aware of the psychological difficulties. There were features ahead he abhorred. His reason for joining was — ‘afew Jesuits in Paris are men working for the poor and for the thoughtful.” c anisius, the greatest of German Jesu- its, entered the Company during Ignatius’ lifetime. Canisius won back Austria, Canisius directs the Bavaria and the Rhineland to the faith. He did it with much preaching, counter - Reformation. Austria and Bavaria re- with colleges Started on fiorins promised, rarely forthcoming, with covered in a campaign of failures and victory, helpers individualistic and uncertain, with opposition from without and within. Spearhead of the Counter Reformation, he waited a long time for permission to and rented apartments, la Taille is eminent in con- olic students of Classics ica reverence the books of Charles of Belgium, asceti- was sufficiently popular an invitation to lecture minds us of the Bolland- 20