Society of Jesus

set apart from other orders for many reasons. The first big one is that they grew the fastest they traveled places such as northern Italy as well as central, India, Southeast asia, Brazil, Japan, and many more places. As the book says that “The Society of Jesus was only one of several new religious orders founded at the same time, but it grew and achieved status that far exceeded the others” (O'Malley 114). Thus proving that the Jesuits were really growing. Aside from the Jesuits spreading to…

is most famous for being the founder of the society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits. During the 16th century people in Europe were starting to break away from away from the Roman Catholic church and the time of reformation started to take place. During this time, Saint Ignatius and his group of Jesuits participated in the Counter Reformation which was in response to the Protestant Reformation. Saint Ignatius’s idea for creating the Society of Jesus became very popular in the 16th and 17th…

The emerging era of the 17th century produced various pieces of baroque art, flourishing as the Golden Age of Spanish painting. Of noble and dramatic themes, various works were sponsored by the Catholic Church, aspiring to compel worshippers to their doors. Successful baroque paintings demanded an audience, ones to admire the theatrical aestheticism; only artists who employed elements of tenebrism and chiaroscuro achieved such breathtaking drama. Two prime examples that applied these practices…

unifying Japan following years of civil war, these threats directly got in the way of his plans and led him to publicly condemn the Catholics, giving them 20 days to evacuate Japan. Christianity at this point was so deeply imbedded into Japanese society that it would take years to expel them. Following Hideyoshi’s death in 1598, Tokugawa Ieyasu succeeded ruling over Japan and became shogun, or military dictator, of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the country was now a unified “one state…

norm in our community and in society at large. Instead of having direct, verbal conversations with others, a text or a direct message is sent. Disagreements between individuals are now “solved” by a quick click on the “Unfriend” button on Facebook or the “Unfollow” button on Instagram. People are choosing to just read the large-font headline on the covers of magazines and move along with their day, instead of stopping,…

Their whole mission is in fact a way to show this, for they are in pursuit to save the natives souls by bring them the truth and baptizing them into the faith under God and Jesus. Father Laforgue not only cared for their souls but also for their own beings. With offering to teach them how to write and knowing he has to make sure they don’t use all their supplies. What was surprising to Laforgue was that the natives could care…

Even the immense generosity of the Huron Wedat nation couldn’t keep the Jesuit missionaries from following their directive. When the French came to settle the New World, they set out not only to conquer the land, but also the indigenous beliefs. As such, the Jesuit missionaries set out to convert devout Hurons to Catholicism. Though the conversions centers were successful in the view of the French Jesuits, the Sainte-Marie settlement in particular was ironically condemned by fate from the first…

Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatius was a Priest and wanted to open a new religious order to be able to re-educate the Church in its faith. In September of 1540 Pope Paul III accepted Saint Ignatius’ outline of the new religious order to be known as the Society of Jesus, or more lovingly known as the Jesuits. The Jesuits took the motto, to find God in all things. This was the Church’s response to the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and later on, the Enlightenment. In one instance, the…

What forces were most important in determining the spread of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation? The reformation refers to the 16th-century movement for the reform of the Roman Catholic Church based on Martin Luther’s criticisms. The Catholic Church responded with the counter-reformation. This addressed some key criticism but retained central beliefs such as the intervening role of the clergy and saints in one’s relationship with God. In general, historians agree that the failures of…

In 1492,after Christopher columbus brought back news of what he called the new the world (north america ,south America, and central america), The spanish government was eager to explore the land further. Holy Cross Catholic Church first began as one of the 21 California missions: La Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz, giving its name to the city and county. We continue to grow, with a mission for the 21st century.Holy Cross reaches out to its own, its youth and pre-school children, its elderly; and…