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

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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

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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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cally in Germany. Fathers Clavius and Kircher are outstanding. The former, known as the Euclid of the 16th Century,” intimate friend of Galileo and esteemed by Kepler, Brahe, and so forth, more than any other man is responsible for the execu- tion and defense of the Gregorian Calendar. To him we owe our present method of reckoning the years and seasons. Kircher was an intellectual giant, specialized in volcanic study. On one occasion he had himself lowered into Mount Vesuvius to measure the crater. His ”Mundus Subterraneus” is a pioneer work in subterranean physics. He was the father of the study of hieroglyphics, having correctly supplied missing portions of the Pamphy- lian obelisk. He gave impetus to the comparative study of Aryan languages, wrote medical treatises, formed an artificial language, perfected one of the earliest count- ing machines, a speaking tube and aeolian harp. Finally, he was the inventor of the magic lantern, the forerunner of our modern motion pictures and left behind Crowds attend Jesuit Morality Play, ijth Century 22