November
Nov 1, 1956: The Society of Jesus was allowed in Norway.
Nov 2, 1661:
The death of Daniel Seghers, a famous painter of insects and flowers.
Nov 3, 1614: Dutch pirates failed to capture the vessel in which the
right arm of Francis Xavier was being brought to Rome.
Nov 4, 1768:
On the feast of St Charles, patron of Charles III, King of Spain, the
people of Madrid asked for the recall of the Jesuits who had been banished
from Spain nineteen months earlier. Irritated by this demand, the King
drove the Archbishop of Toledo and his Vicar General into exile as
instigators of the movement.
Nov 5, 1660: The death of Alexandre de
Rhodes, one of the most effective Jesuit missionaries of all time. A
native of France, he arrived in what is now Vietnam in 1625.
Nov 6,
1789: Fr John Carroll of Maryland was appointed to be the first Bishop of
Baltimore.
Nov 7, 1717: The death of Antonio Baldinucci, an itinerant
preacher to the inhabitants of the Italian countryside near Rome.
Nov
8, 1769: In Spain, Charles III ordered all of the Society's goods to be
sold, and sent a peremptory demand to the newly-elected Pope Clement XIV
to have the Society suppressed.
Nov 9, 1646: In England, Fr Edmund
Neville died after nine month imprisonment and ill-treatment. An heir
to large estates in Westmoreland, he was educated in the English College
and spent fourty years working in England.
Nov 10, 1549: At Rome the
death of Paul III, to whom the Society ows its first constitution as a
religious order.
Nov 11, 1676: In St James' Palace, London, Claude la
Colombiere preached on All Saints, Nov 11 (new style calendar).
Nov
12, 1919: Fr General Ledochowski issed an instruction oncerning the use
of typewriters. He said that they could be allowed in offices but not in
personal rooms, nor should they be carried from one house to another.
Nov 13, 1865: The death of James Oliver Van de Velde, second bishop of
the city of Chicago from 1848 to 1853.
Nov 14, 1854: In Spain, the
Community left Loyola for the Balearic Isles, in conformity with a
government order.
Nov 15, 1628: The deaths of St Roch Gonzalez and Fr
Alphonsus Rodriguez. They were some of the architects of the Jesuits
missions in Uruguay and Paraguay.
Nov 16, 1989: In El Salvador, the murder of six Jesuits connected with the
University of Central America together with two of their lay colleagues.
Nov 17, 1579: Bl. Rudolph Acquaviva and two other Jesuits set out
from Goa for Surat and Fattiphur, the Court of Akbar, the Great Mogul.
Nov 18, 1538: Pope Paul III caused the Governor of Rome to publish the
verdict proclaiming the complete innocence of Ignatius and his companions
of all heresy.
Nov 19, 1526: Ignatius was examined by the Inquisition
in Alcala, Spain. They were concerned with the novelty of his way of life
and his teaching.
Nov 20, 1864: In St. Peter's, Rome, the
beatification of Peter Canisius by Pope Pius IX.
Nov 21, 1759: At
Livorno, the harbor officials refused to let the ship, S. Bonaventura with
120 exiled Portugese Jesuits on board, cast anchor. Carvalho sent orders
to the Governor of Rio de Janeiro to make a diligent search for the
supposed wealth of the Jesuits.
Nov 22, 1791: Georgetown Academy
opened with one student, aged 12, who was the first student taught by the
Jesuits in the United States.
Nov 23, 1545: Jeronimo de Nadal, whom
Ignatius had known as a student at Paris, entered the Society. Later
Nadal was instrumental in getting Ignatius to narrate his autobiography.
In 1927: the execution of Fr Michael Augustine Pro, SJ, by leaders of
the persecution of the Church in Mexico.
Nov 24, 1963: The death of
John LaFarge, pioneer advocate of racial justice in the United States.
Nov 25, 1584: The Church of the Gesu, built in Rome for the Society by
Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, was solemnly consecrated.
Nov 26, 1678:
In London the arrest and imprisonment of St Claude la Colombiere. He was
released after five weeks and banished.
Nov 27, 1680: In Rome the
death of Fr Athanasius Kircher, considered a universal genius, but
especially knowledgeable in science and archeology.
Nov 28, 1759:
Twenty Fathers and 192 Scholastics set sail from the Tagus for exile. Two
were to die on the voyage to Genoa and Civita Vecchia.
Nov 29, 1773:
The Jesuits of White Russia requested the Express Catherine to allow the
Letter of Suppression to be published, as it had been all over Europe.
"She bade them lay aside their scruples, promising to obtain the Papal
sanction for their remaining in status quo.
Nov 30, 1642: The birth of
Br Andrea Pozzo at Trent, who was called to Rome in 1681 to paint the flat
ceiling of the church of San Ignazio so that it would look as though there
were a dome above. There had been a plan for a dome but there was not
money to build it. His work is still on view.
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December
Dec. 1, 1581: At Tyburn in London, Edmund Campion and
Alexander Briant were martyred.
Dec. 2, 1552: On the island of Sancian off the coast of
China, Francis Xavier died.
Dec. 3, 1563: At the Council of Trent, the Institute of
the Society was approved.
Dec. 4, 1870: The Roman College, appropriated by the
Piedmontese government, was reopened as a Lyceum. The monogram of
the Society over the main entrance was effaced.
Dec. 5, 1584: By his bull Omnipotentis Dei, Pope
Gregory XIII gave the title of Primaria to Our Lady's Sodality
established in the Roman College in 1564, and empowered it to
aggregate other similar sodalities.
Dec. 6, 1618: In Naples, the Jesuits were blamed for
proposing to the Viceroy that a solemn feast should be held in
honor of the Immaculate Conception, and a public pledge be taken
to defend that doctrine. This was regarded as a novelty not to be
encouraged.
Dec. 7, 1649: The martyrdom in Etarita, Canada, of
Charles Garnier, missionary to the Petun Indians, among whom he
died during an Iroquois attack.
Dec. 8, 1984: Walter Ciszek, prisoner in Russia from
1939 to 1963, died.
Dec. 9, 1741: At Paris, Fr. Charles Poree died. He was
a famous master of rhetoric. Nineteen of his pupils were admitted
into the French Academy, including Voltaire, who, in spite of his
impiety, always felt an affectionate regard for his old master.
Dec. 10, 1548: The General of the Dominicans wrote in
defense of the Society of Jesus on seeing it attacked in Spain by
Melchior Cano and others.
Dec. 11, 1686: At Rome the death of Fr. Charles de
Noyelle, a Belgian, 12th General of the Society.
Dec. 12, 1661: In the College of Clermont, Paris, Fr.
James Caret publicly defended the doctrine of papal
infallibility, causing great excitement among the Gallicans and
Jansenists.
Dec. 13, 1545: The opening of the Council of Trent to
which Frs. Laynez and Salmeron were sent as papal theologians and
Fr. Claude LeJay as theologian of Cardinal Otho Truchses.
Dec. 14, 1979: Riccardo Lombardi, founder of the Better
World Movement, died.
Dec. 15, 1631: At Naples, during an earthquake and
eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Jesuits worked to help all
classes of people.
Dec. 16, 1544: St. Francis Xavier entered Cochin.
Dec. 17, 1588: At Paris, Fr. Henry Walpole was
ordained.
Dec.18, 1594: At Florence the apparition of St.
Ignatius to St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi.
Dec. 19, 1593: At Rome Fr. Robert Bellarmine was
appointed rector of the Roman College.
Dec. 20, 1815: A Ukase of Alexander I was published
banishing the Society of Jesus from St. Petersburg and Moscow on
the pretext that they were troubling the Russian Church.
Dec. 21, 1577: At Rome, Fr. Juan de Polanco died,
secretary to the Society and very dear to Ignatius.
Dec. 22, 1649: At Cork the death of Fr. David Glawey, a
missionary in the Inner and Lower Hebrides, Islay, Oronsay,
Colonsay, Arran.
Dec. 23, 1549: Francis Xavier is appointed provincial
of the newly-erected Indian Province.
Dec. 24, 1587: Fr. Claude Matthée died at Ancona. He
was a Frenchman of humble birth, highly esteemed by King Henry
III and the Duke of Guise. He foretold that Fr. Acquaviva would
be General and hold that office for a long period.
Dec. 25, 1545: Isabel Roser pronounced her vows as
Jesuit together with Lucrezia di Brandine and Francisca Cruyllas
in the presence of Ignatius at the church of St. Maria della
Strada in Rome.
Dec. 26, 1856: Fr. Gilles Henry, a missioner in the
Caucasus and Greek Archipelago, died at Rome.
Dec. 27, 1618: Henry Morse entered the English College
at Rome.
Dec. 28, 1802: Pope Pius VII allowed Fr. General G.
Gruber to affiliate the English Jesuits to the Society of Jesus
in Russia.
Dec. 29, 1886: Publication of the beatification decree
of the English martyrs.
Dec. 30, 1564: Letter from Pope Pius IV to Daniel,
Archbishop of Mayence, deploring the malicious and scurrilous
pamphlets published against the Society throughout Germany and
desiring him to use his influence against the evil.
Dec. 31, 1551: Francis Xavier left Sancian for Malacca
and Goa to prepare for his journey to China.
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