May
- May 1, 1572. At Rome, Pope St. Pius V breathed his last. His decree imposing Choir on the Society was cancelled by his successor, Gregory XIII.
- May 2, 1706. The death of Jesuit brother G J Kamel, SJ. The camellia flower is named after him.
- May 3, 1945. American troops take over Innsbruck, Austria. Theology studies at the Canisianum resume a few months later.
- May 4, 1902. The death of Charles Sommervogel, historian of the Society and editor of the great bibliography of all publications of the Jesuits from the beginnings of the Society onward.
- May 5, 1782. At Coimbra, Sebastian Carvahlo, Marquis de Pombal, a cruel persecutor of the Society in Portugal, died in disgrace and exile. His body remained unburied fifty years, till Father Philip Delvaux performed the last rites in 1832.
- May 6, 1816. Letter of John Adams to Thomas Jefferson mentioning the Jesuits. "If any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, it is the company of Loyola."
- May 7, 1547. Letter of St. Ignatius to the scholastics at Coimbra on Religious Perfection.
- May 8, 1853. The death of Jan Roothan, the 21st general of the Society, who promoted the central role of the Spiritual Exercises in the work of the Society after the restoration.
- May 9, 1758. The 19th General Congregation opened, the last of the Old Society. It elected Lorenzo Ricci as general.
- May 10,1773. Empress Maria Teresa of Austria changed her friendship for the Society into hatred, because she had been led to believe that a written confession of hers (found and printed by Protestants) had been divulged by the Jesuits.
- May 11, 1824. St. Regis Seminary opens in Florissant, Missouri, by Fr Van Quickenborne. First Roman Catholic school in USA for the higher education of Native American Indians
- May 12,1981. A letter of this date, from Secretary of State, Cardinal Casaroli, speaks positively of Teilhard de Chardin in celebration of the centenary of his birth (May 1,1881).
- May 13, 1572. Election of Gregory XIII to succeed St Pius V. To him the Society owes the foundation of the Roman and German Colleges.
- May 14, 1978. Letter of Pedro Arrupe to the whole Society on Inculturation.
- May 15, 1815. Readmission of the Society into Spain by Ferdinand VII. The members of the Society were again exiled on July 31, 1820.
- May 16, 1988. In Paraguay, Pope John Paul II canonizes Roque Gonzalez, Alfonso Rodriguez, and Juan del Castillo.
- May 17, 1572. Pope Gregory XIII exempted the Society from choir and approved simple vows after two years of novitiate and ordination before solemn profession. In these matters he reversed a decree of St Pius V.
- May 18, 1769. The election of Cardinal Lorenzo Ganganelli as Pope Clement XIV. He was the pope who suppressed the Society.
- May 19, 1652. Birth of Paul Hoste, SJ mathematician and expert on construction of ships and history of naval warfare.
- May 20, 1521. Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French.
- May 21, 1925. Pius XI canonizes Peter Canisius, with Teresa of the Child Jesus, Mary Madeleine Postal, Madeleine Sophie Barat, John Vianney, and John Eudes. Canisius is declared a Doctor of the Church.
- May 22, 1965. Pedro Arrupe was elected the 28th general of the Society of Jesus.
- May 23, 1873. The death of Peter de Smet, a famous missionary among Native Americans of the great plains and mountains of the United States. He served as a mediator and negotiator of several treaties.
- May 24, 1834. Don Pedro IV expelled the Society from Brazil.
- May 25, 1569. At Rome the Society was installed by Pope St Pius V in the College of Penitentiaries. Priests of various nationalities who were resident there were required to act as confessors in St Peter's.
- May 26, 1673. Ching Wei-San (Emmanuel de Sigueira) dies, the first Chinese Jesuit priest.
- May 27, 1555. The Viceroy of India sent an embassy to Claudius, Emperor of Ethiopia, hoping to win him and his subjects over to Catholic unity. Nothing came of this venture, but Fr Goncalvo de Silveira, who would become the Society's first martyr on the Africa soil, remained in the country.
- May 28, 1962. The death of Bernard Hubbard, SJ, famous Alaskan missionary. He was the author of the book Mush, You Malemutes! and wrote a number of articles on the Alaska mission.
- May 29,1991. Pope John Paul II announces that Paulo Dezza, SJ is to become a Cardinal, as well as Jan Korec, in Slovakia.
- May 30, 1849. Vincent Gioberti's book Il Gesuita Moderno put on the Index. Gioberti had applied to be admitted into the Society, and on being refused became its bitter enemy and calumniator.
- May 31, 1900. The new novitiate of the Buffalo Mission, St Stanislaus, in South Brooklyn, Ohio, near Cleveland, is blessed.
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June
- Jun 1, 1527. Ignatius was thrown into prison after having been accussed of having advised two noblewomen to undertake a pilgrimage, on foot, to Compostella.
- Jun 2, 1566. The Professed House was opened in Toledo. It became well known for the fervor of its residents and the wonderful effects of their labors.
- Jun 3, 1559. A residence at Frascati, outside of Rome, was purchased for the fathers and brothers of the Roman College.
- Jun 4, 1667. The death in Rome of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicini, SJ, a man of great knowledge and humility. While he was Prefect of Studies of the Roman College he wrote his great work, The History of the Council of Trent.
- Jun 5, 1546. Paul III, in his Brief Exponi Nobis, empowered the Society to admit Coadjutors, both spiritual and temporal.
- Jun 6, 1610. At the funeral of Henry IV in Paris, two priests preaching in the Churches of S. Eustace and S. Gervase, denounced the Jesuits as accomplices in his death. This was due primarily to the book De Rege of Father Mariana.
- Jun 7, 1556. Peter Canisius becomes the first provincial superior of the newly constituted Province of Upper Germany.
- Jun 8, 1889: Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins died at the age of 45 in Dublin. His final words were "I am so happy, so happy." He had written "I wish that my pieces could at some time become known but in some spontaneous way ... and without my forcing."
- Jun 9, 1597. The death of Blessed Jose de Ancieta, Brazil's most famous missionary, and the founder of the cities of Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.
- Jun 10, 1537. Ignatius and his companions were given minor orders at the house of Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti in Venice, Italy.
- Jun 11, 1742. The Chinese and Malabar Rites were forbidden by Pope Benedict XIV; persecution broke out at once in China.
- Jun 12, 1928. Fr General Ledochowski reponded negatively to the idea of intercollegiate sports at Jesuit colleges because he feared the loss of study time and the amount of travel involved.
- Jun 13, 1539. At Rome, St Ignatius and the first companions consulted together on the rules and plan of life they wished to adopt.
- Jun 14, 1596. By his Brief Romanus Pontifex, Pope Clement VIII forbade to members of the Society of Jesus the use or privilege of the Bulla Cruciata as to the choice of confessors and the obtaining of absolution from reserved cases.
- Jun 15, 1871. P. W. Couzins, a female law student, graduated from Saint Louis University Law School, the first law school in the country to admit women.
- Jun 16, 1675. St Margaret Mary Alacoque received her great revelation about devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- Jun 17, 1900. The martyrdom at Wuyi, China, of Blessed Modeste Andlauer and Blessed Remy Asore', slain during the Boxer Rebellion.
- Jun 18, 1804. Fr John Roothan, afterwards General of the Society, left his native Holland at the age of seventeen to join the Society in White Russia.
- Jun 19, 1558. The opening of the First General Congregation, nearly two years after the death of Ignatius. It was summoned by Fr Laynez, the Vicar General. Some trouble arose from the fact that Fr Bobadilla thought himself entitled to some share in the governance. Pope Paul IV ordered that the Institute of the Society should be strictly adhered to.
- Jun 20, 1626. The martyrdom in Nagasaki, Japan of Blesseds Francis Pacheco, John Baptist Zola, Vincent Caun, Balthasar De Torres, Michael Tozo, Gaspar Sadamatzu, John Kinsaco, Paul Xinsuki, and Peter Rinscei.
- Jun 21, 1591. The death of St Aloysius Gonzaga, who died from the plague which he caught while attending the sick.
- Jun 22, 1611. The first arrival of the Jesuit fathers in Canada, sent there at the request of Henry IV of France.
- Jun 23, 1967. St Louis University's Board of Trustees gathered at Fordyce House for the first meeting of the expanded Board of Trustees. SLU was the first Catholic university to establish a Board of Trustees with a majority of lay members.
- Jun 24, 1537. Ignatius, Francis Xavier, and five of the companions wre ordained priests in Venice, Italy.
- Jun 25, 1782. The Jesuits in White Russia were permitted by the Empress Catherine to elect a General. They chose Fr Czerniewicz. He took the title of Vicar General, with the powers of the General.
- Jun 26, 1614. By a ruse of the Calvinists, the book, Defensio Fidei, of Francis Suarez was condemned by the French Parliament. In addition, in England James I ordered the book to be publicly burned.
- Jun 27, 1978. The murder of Bernard Lisson, a mechanic, and Gregor Richert, a parish priest, shot to death at St Rupert's Mission, Sinoia, Zimbabwe.
- Jun 28, 1591. Fr Leonard Lessius's doctrine on Grace and Predestination caused a great deal of excitement and agitation against the Society in Louvain and Douai. The Papal Nuncio and Pope Grebory XIV both declared that his teaching was perfectly orthodox.
- Jun 29, 1880. In France the law of spoliation, which was passed at the end of March, comes into effect and all the Jesuit Houses and Colleges are suppressed.
- Jun 30, 1829. The opening of the Twenty-First General Congregation of the order, which elects Fr John Roothan as General.
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