Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club, Basque royalist society, attempted to hold a meeting last week in Bilbao. Socialists, Communists, Republicans attempted to break down the doors, and the fun began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms. Socialists...
Excited by stories of the gunfire coming from Bilbao's monastery, the government of Premier Manuel Azana drew up a long-contemplated decree abolishing the Jesuit order in Spain, confiscating all its property, estimated at $30,000,000 exclusive of security and trust holdings in the name of individuals, said to amount to $70,000,000. President Alcala Zamora signed the order. Jesuit superiors were expecting it, novices were ordered to pack up and get ready to leave the country, but suddenly the government grew timorous. Days passed, the decree was not published in the official gazette...
...Spanish Republic, in attacking the Jesuit Order, is fulfilling a revolutionary tradition. The Church has always supported the established order, consecrating that which like itself can turn to the past for historical justification. Being fundamentally conservative it is inevitable that it should be attacked by the young and the radical. Yet the Church has outlived its rivals. Adapting itself to the eventual pressure of circumstance, it has maintained its basic assertions and lays hold of the same qualities in man today, which it appealed to five hundred years...
...associates in founding the Society of Jesus, is regarded by his church as the greatest missionary since the time of the Apostles. The church in Goa was made a shrine to his memory, but the Society of Jesus secured his right arm in 1614, placed it in the Jesuit mother church, Rome's Gesu...
Father Talbot, an associate editor of America (Jesuit weekly), knew that the Talbots are an ancient and illustrious Irish family, with both Roman Catholic and Protestant branches. But he had not heard of Matt Talbot. He made inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that Matt Talbot, a laborer, dead less than a year, had already acquired a reputation for almost unearthly piety. His biography by Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn had been translated into a dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week...