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

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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

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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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Peter Canisius receives Stanislaus Study works of the heretics he was hammering, works lately indexed by Trent but still read by nearly all the other Catholics in Germany. He wrote a Catechism that ran 200 editions in 18 languages before he died, that has lasted to the present. He rarely seems brilliant in the usual sense, but he was one of the kindliest and humblest men that ever lived and hence won his campaign in a series of seemingly lost battles. Saint Peter Canisius had been received into the Society by Peter Fabre, an angelically kindly saint himself. Canisius is a doctor of the universal Church. In the five German speaking “Provinces” as early as 1626 there were over 100 col- leges and academies. The Thirty Years War blocked the Jesuits’ efforts for a time, but it is interesting to note that Tilly, Wallenstein and Piccolomini, the famous military chieftains, were Jesuit pupils. Among the pulpit orators who later developed in Germany were Jenigen, Hunolt, Tschupick, Schneller and Wurz. Science seems to be the peculiar genre in which the Jesuits excelled scholasti- 21