In these bulls he ruled on the custom of accommodating Christian words and usages to express non-Christian ideas and practices of the native cultures, which had been extensively done by the Jesuits in their Indian and Chinese missions.

Recognizing the damage done to Spain's education system after the expulsion of the Jesuits, Floridablanca undertook drastic reform to hire new teachers and modernize Spain's education system.

Jesuits had brought with them various books, engravings, and paintings and, when they saw the delight Akbar held for them, sent for more and more of the same to be given to the Mughals, as they felt they were on the " verge of conversion ," a notion which proved to be very false.

In 1758 the reforming minister of Joseph I of Portugal ( 1750 – 77 ), the Marquis of Pombal, expelled the Jesuits from Portugal, and shipped them en masse to Civitavecchia, as a " gift for the Pope.

His successor Clement XIV tried to placate the enemies of the Jesuits by treating them harshly: he refused to meet the Superior General, Lorenzo Ricci, ordered them not to receive novices, etc.

Pope Gregory XIII also founded numerous seminaries for training priests, beginning with the German College at Rome, and put them in the charge of the Jesuits.

From 1697 to 1710 he acted as papal nuncio to the Kingdom of Portugal, where he is believed to have formed those unfavourable impressions of the Jesuits which afterwards influenced his conduct towards them.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

Although the Jansenists identified themselves only as rigorous followers of Augustinism, Jesuits coined the term " Jansenism " to identify them as having Calvinist affinities.

As part of a nationwide Sino-French cartographic program, the Jesuits Jean-Baptiste Régis, Pierre Jartoux, and Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli joined a Chinese team visiting the lower Amur ( known to them under its Manchu name, Saghalien Ula, i. e. the " Black River "), in 1709, and learned from the " Ke tcheng " natives of the lower Amur about the existence of the offshore island nearby.

The Jesuits, however, did not have a chance to visit the island personally, and the inadequate information about its geography provided by the Ke tcheng people and the Manchus who had been to the island would not allow them to identify it with the land visited by de Vries in 1643.

The Franciscans took over the administration of the missions on the Baja California Peninsula from the Jesuits after King Carlos III ordered them forcibly expelled from New Spain on February 3, 1768.

Some who opposed the missionaries ' work accused them of being secret Catholic Jesuits ( who had been outlawed from the colony in 1700 ) and of working with the Mohican on the side of the French.

The Jesuits Lombard and Creuilly baptised a few Galibis at the church of Saint Nicholas in Cayenne in December 1710 and returned with them soon after to farm the land at Guatémala, across the river from Kourou.

There are 38 Jesuits on campus and 24 of them are employed by the University.

Antipathy to the Jesuits brought Jansen no nearer Protestantism ; on the contrary, he yearned to beat them with their own weapons, chiefly by showing them that Roman Catholics could interpret the Bible in just as mystical and pietistic a manner.

The Jesuits, who then enjoyed predominant political and theological power ( including a personal confessor to the King of France ), then persuaded the Pope to force all Jansenists to sign a formulary leading them to admit the papal bull and to confess to their errors.

He maintained a close association with the Jesuits, and when he had fallen out with them, with the English Carthusians.

The Jesuits were expelled from Mexico in 1767 and the Franciscan priests who replaced them never gained the confidence of the Yaqui.

In 1605, in Cialis, he, too, became convinced that his destination is China, as he met the members of a caravan returning from Beijing to Kashgar, who told them about staying in the same Beijing inn with Portuguese Jesuits.

French Jesuits began to seek Algonquin conversions to Roman Catholicism, to tie them more closely to France.

Henry, more than anyone, endeavoured to bring the Jesuits to Portugal and employed them in the colonial empire.

Indeed, Topsfield was founded in part based on " alarming " 1633 news that the Roman Catholic French had planted settlements nearby and intended to send settlers " with divers priests and Jesuits among them ".

Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits: up before dawn to scrub the floors, whether they were dirty or not ; ;

A strong Brazilian influence was also exercised by the Jesuits in religion and education.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

In the early 17th century, European-style Arabic numerals were introduced by the Jesuits.

Later in his life he had a religious crisis, influenced by Counter-Reformation piety, which resulted in condemning his own works depicting nudity, and he left all his possessions to the Jesuits.

It was famously attacked by the Catholic and Jansenist philosopher Pascal, during the formulary controversy against the Jesuits, in his Provincial Letters as the use of rhetorics to justify moral laxity, which became identified by the public with Jesuitism ; hence the everyday use of the term to mean complex and sophistic reasoning to justify moral laxity.

With the introduction of European astronomy into China via the Jesuits, the motions of both the sun and moon began to be calculated with sinusoids in the 1645 Shíxiàn calendar (, Book of the Conformity of Time ) of the Qing dynasty, made by the Jesuits Adam Schall and Giacomo Rho.

An early European account of Taoism was provided by the Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault in their De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas ( 1615 ).

In particular, the ideas of Confucius, translated into European languages by the Jesuits stationed in China, are thought to have had considerable influence on the deists and other philosophical groups of the Enlightenment who were interested by the integration of the system of morality of Confucius into Christianity.

Ecuador's economic woes were, no doubt, compounded by the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 by King Charles III of Spain.

* Regimini militantis Ecclesiae was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.

He wrote, “ cursed those Jesuits, saying, ' Our world used to be peaceful, but it has been filled by greedy colonialists, who make war every year and shorten our lives ’”.

Many churches all over the world have been named in honor of Xavier, often founded by Jesuits.

The mass at 6 PM on the feast day is celebrated by the Jesuits over the last few years.

In one documented instance involving favourable reviews written by the Jesuits of San Fedele, defending La Dolce Vita had severe consequences.

There was little doubt, according to Coke, that the plot had been invented by the Jesuits.

The Jesuits today form the largest single religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church, although they are surpassed by the Franciscan family of first orders Order of Friars Minor ( OFM ), OFM Capuchins, and Conventuals.

Thrown by the religious tolerance of Akbar and Jahangir's rule, the Jesuits had long thought that they were always on the verge of conversion.

This was seen by the Jesuits as a gigantic step forward, but the English and the locals knew better.

Jesuits had first arrived in the 1560s and were followed by Dominicans in the 1580s.

* 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.