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      • Unlike the Benedictine monks or the Franciscan and Dominican friars, the Jesuits swore special obedience to the pope and were specifically dedicated to the task of reconstructing church life and teaching in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. They thus came to be called the “shock troops of the Counter-Reformation.”
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  3. www.catholic.org › encyclopedia › viewThe Jesuits After the Restoration (1814-1912) - Catholic Online

    Recalled by Ferdinand VII in 1815, the Society was attacked by the Revolution of 1820; and twenty-five Jesuits were slain at Madrid in 1822. The Fathers, however, returned after 1823 and took part in the management of the military school and the College of Nobles at Madrid (1827).

  4. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullFrom Immolation to Restoration: The Jesuits, 1773–1814

    Nov 27, 2014 · The period between global suppression (1773) and universal restoration (1814) had a profound impact on the 19th-century Society of Jesus. After an account of the events of the suppression years, the author looks at the impact on both Jesuit self-identity (the relationship between “old” and “new” Society), the Society’s relationship ...

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › JesuitsJesuits - Wikipedia

    The Jesuits have always been controversial within the Catholic Church and have frequently clashed with secular governments and institutions. Beginning in 1759, the Catholic Church expelled Jesuits from most countries in Europe and from European colonies. Pope Clement XIV officially suppressed the order in 1773. In 1814, the Church lifted the ...

  6. www.thinkingfaith.org › articles › jesuitJesuit Restoration - Part Two: The Society under Clement XIV

    Aug 14, 2014 · Pope Clement XIV. Thomas McCoog SJ continues his account of the tumultuous history of the Jesuits in the 18th century. With the Jesuits having been expelled from Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, the future of the Society hung in the balance. And what’s more, a papal conclave was just beginning.

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  8. www.thinkingfaith.org › articles › jesuitJesuit Restoration - Part Three: The Survival of the Jesuits

    Aug 20, 2014 · The papal brief Dominus ac Redemptor detailed Pope Clement XIV’s instructions for the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, but its execution was not consistent across kingdoms or dioceses. Thomas McCoog SJ continues his background to the restoration of the Society by exploring how a network of now-former Jesuits survived after the Society’s ...

  9. www.ministrymagazine.org › archive › 1998Ministry Magazine | The Jesuits and the reformers

    The name Jesuits was first used by Calvin and others to designate the Roman Catholic order called The Society of Jesus, founded in 1534 by the Spanish noble Ignatius Loyola. The pope formally recognized the new order in 1540. 1

  10. www.thinkingfaith.org › articles › jesuitJesuit Restoration - Part One: The Jesuits in Europe before 1769

    Aug 6, 2014 · Marquis de Pombal. On 7 August, Jesuits worldwide commemorate the 200th anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus after a 40-year suppression. Thinking Faith asked Jesuit historian Thomas M. McCoog to tell us the fascinating story of the Jesuits’ downfall and re-establishment…and everything in between!