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

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Oxford, became a Catholic, then entered the Society, and, after publishing the Wreck of the Deutschland,” released a slim but golden stream of dynamic poetry. His style encompasses such devices as ” sprung rhythm,” and the compressed tension of his song has captivated a steadily growing audience. F. R. Leavis in a recent book on modern trends in English poetry asserted “he is likely to prove for our time and the future, the only influential poet of the Victorian age, and he seems to me the greatest.” Blessed John Ogilvie conducted his own defense in a bonny, canny manner in Edin- burgh and was sent to heaven from Scotland in no easy way. In recent years. Father Bernard Vaughan could tinkle his bell in the slums of Lon- don or visit Edward VII with impunity. The names of Fathers Cyril Martindale and Martin d’Arcy are familiar to American readers. Father James Broderick’s biogra- phies give a better picture of the Order than most histories. Y -X. avier’s name, familiar to all Balti- moreans from the Novena of Grace, stands for the Jesuit missions. Indeed he is “All things to all men.” Patron Saint of Catholic missions. At latest reckoning the manpower The Foreign Legion- naires. Brahmins and supplying the Society’s missions in India, China, Japan, Africa, else- Mandarins. Ipdians and agriculture. where, totals just short of 4,000. Our own Maryland-New York has given 10 per cent of her men, volunteers to the Philippines. What is the story behind this? Brahmins and pariahs in India, friends of the em- perors of China, building an agricultural commune in Paraguay, “all things to all men” with a vengeance. The missionaries usually become as staunchly local rooters as a Holy Cross or Loyola “Mister.” From Xavier on they fought the politicians who exploited their people. 26

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have been John Carroll and Leonard Neale, the first two bishops of Baltimore, in- numerable other bishops, archbishops and cardinals, a half-dozen generals and an admiral, many English bassadors, a president of the naturalist, members of ical leaders, and more re- the Punch” cartoonist, reate of England, Charles er John Gerard, scientific philosophers , Fathers Maher. Astronomers from tory have been sent by the British government all over the world. Stephen Perry’s name is preeminent. Laboring with Campion and Parsons was another English Jesuit named Robert Southwell, destined to join the ranks of the eminent British poets. It was he who endeavored to give Elizabethan poetry a religious turn by such works as ’‘Triumphs over Death,” ‘‘Hundred Meditations on the Love of God,” ‘‘Short Rule of Good Life,” and ‘‘Saint Peter’s Complaint.” He was arrested in 1592, examined thirteen times under torture by members of the Council and was thrown into a dungeon for three years. It was there he wrote most of his best work and it rings with the sincerity engendered by his suffering. He was hanged, drawn and quartered on Tyburn Hill. The Cambridge History of English Literature maintains that Shakespeare read and imitated Southwell, and Ben Jonson exclaimed once that if ‘‘. . . . he had written .... the Burning Babe (of Southwell), he would have been content to destroy many of hi s own pieces.” In the 19th Century, Father Gerard Manley Hopkins attended Priest’s Hole in an English Manor governor s, justices and am- Peru, Charles Waterton, Parliament and Irish polit- cently, Bernard Partridge, Alfred Austin, poet lau- Laughton, the actor, Fath- and historical writer, the Rickaby, Thurston and the Stonyhurst observa- 25

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Vilela, the first Jesuit to reach the Mikado, Almeida and Alexander Valignani, carried on Xavier ' s mission in Nippon. Although constantly harried by the Jap- anese bonzes, or priests, hundreds of thousands became Christians, including several kings and their families. Valignani’ s death saw Japan with 150 Jesuits, numerous colleges, schools, hospitals and countless churches and converts. The boss men of Japan put an end to their work in the late 16th Century. Persecution found them strong and over 200,000 were martyred, including 80 Jesuits. Every one knows the story of the Christians who kept the faith, by family tradition through the centuries up to Admiral Perry. India was the scene of a curious phenomenon. There such noted scholars as de Nobili, and Constant Beschi, sought the confidence of the Indians by adopting the manner, dress and culture of high class Brahmins, and likewise of the lower castes. It wasn’t an infrequent sight to see a Jesuit splendiferously arrayed, in a palan- quin, meeting another Jesuit in the rags of a pariah, each forbidden by the strict rules of caste to recognize the other. Such men as Ruggieri, tered China about 1581 as ticians. Ricci was proba- travel through the interior celebrated to the present Adam Schall penetrated to after securing permission uits to preach anywhere Pasio and Matteo Ricci en- scientists and mathema- bly the first white man to of China and his maps are day for their accuracy, the capital at Pekin and of the Emperor for the Jes- in the empire, was ap- pointed chief of the board Peter Clavcrbapizing the Negroes of mathematics. Father de Nobili as a Brahmin 27