Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Apostle Paul, Francis Xavier was probably the greatest missionary ever to preach the Christian Gospel. In ten years time, the 16th century Jesuit fought his way through the rediscovered countries of the East, often by himself, to make thousands of Asian converts. Thanks in part to the range and speed of his missionary work, however, Xavier's legend has become barnacled with a mass of apocryphal stories, many of them still piously recounted...
...newly published book, St. Francis Xavier (Wicklow Press; $5), is a highly successful attempt to present the saint and his work stripped of the false romanticizing. The author, Father James Brodrick, 61, is a Jesuit himself. An Irishman who lives in England, he has spent most of his life writing readable but impeccably researched books on the history of the Jesuit order. In writing St. Francis Xavier, he has had the advantage of a mass of new material on Xavier's life, most of it compiled by fellow Jesuit scholars...
...quite surprised at the statement in the obituary of Santayana that there has never been a Spanish philosopher. Francisco Suarez [1548-1617], a Spanish Jesuit, was one of the foremost systematic thinkers of all time. Besides being a theologian of great merit, he was the first scholastic philosopher to write a formally philosophical treatise, his Disputationes Metaphysicae. Furthermore, his De Legibus is an acknowledged milestone in the development of the philosophy...
Father Feeney, a Jesuit teacher who was once associate editor of the magazine America, did not recant. Though he was also dismissed from the Jesuit order, he stayed at St. Benedict Center in Cambridge, a house of studies originally founded for the use of Catholic Harvard-men. A core of disciples gathered around him, most of them college students attracted by his magnetic personality and fanatic theology. Now under a hundred, they call themselves the "Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
...friars who had helped torture Grandier came down sick, passed into convulsions and not long afterward died in despair, knocking the crucifix from his confessor's hand. His colleague lasted a few years more, but soon went insane, and died so. Father Jean-Joseph Surin, the great Jesuit contemplative who finally cured Sister Jeanne, did so only at the cost of becoming himself possessed. Sister Jeanne, however, with her flair for the dramatic, became a celebrity, and toured France to show off some handwriting God had supposedly done on her body...