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“Young men of promising hope,” Marmaduke Stone wrote to the suppressed Jesuits in the autumn of 1803, began their formation as novices in the restored English Province. Hope had been in short supply as Jesuits watched their beloved Society be suppressed in 1773 and their own efforts to retain a corporate identity fade as their numbers dwindled. Attempts to aggregate themselves to the remnant of the Society that continued in Russia under the protection of Tsarina Catherine the Great were frustrated until Father General Gabriel Gruber, on the basis of a vivae vocis oraculo of Pope Pius VII, reestablished the English Province in the spring of 1803, eleven years before the universal restoration of the Society. As the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith defiantly asserted that the Society of Jesus legally existed only in Russia and Jesuit superiors were unable to provide any documentation to substantiate their claims, the vicars apostolic in England remained skeptical. The “young men of promising hope” faced an uncertain future. The British Province of the Society of Jesus commemorates the bicentennial of the province’s refoundation with this collection of eleven articles.
The Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture, 1573-1580A collection of thirty articles edited by Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., which completes the first thorough investigation of Everard Mercurian’s generalate.
Noble Patronage and Jesuit Missions: Maria Theresia Von Fugger-Wellenburg (1690-1762) and Jesuit Missionaries in China and VietnamThe last three decades of the Jesuit Mission in China and Vietnam were recorded in the published letters of the French and German Jesuits, the Lettres edifiantes and Wolt-Bote.
A Guide to the Jesuit Archives: Guide to the Jesuit Archives opens up and enhances research opportunities around the world for historians, linguists, theologians, anthropologists, philosophers, specialists in the natural and physical sciences, to make but a few areas in which this book.
De Adeundis Ecclesiis Protestantium: De Adeundis Ecclesiis Protestantium (Is it lawful to attend Protestant religious ceremonies?”) is based on unpublished manuscript documentation that was until recently thought to be lost.
The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615)The first three decades of Bourbon rule in France coincided with a period of violent fragmentation followed by rapid renewal within the French Catholic community. This book studies the forces behind these dramatic developments within the French church.
Numismatica Ignaciana - Ignatian Numismatics: A multilingual guide to Ignatian medals, to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of Ignatius Loyola.
A Paradise Inhabited by Devils: The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples - Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits