( this passage is believed to be a reference to a trial of the Jesuits who were charged with equivocation speaking unclearly or speaking with double meaning )

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.

On the other hand, the zelanti – the pro-Jesuit party among the cardinals – believed him secretly sympathetic towards the Jesuits, and expected some reparation for the alleged wrongs they suffered under the previous reign.

Jesuits who had actually worked as missionaries in Formosa were not believed due to British anti-Jesuit prejudice.

Having lived in Vienna and London, the latter city in particular being a major centre of the Enlightenment, Melo increasingly believed that the Society of Jesus, also known as the " Jesuits ", with their grip on science and education, were an inherent drag on an independent, Portuguese-style iluminismo.

He is believed to have received early musical training from the Jesuits.

It was the first place in Asia to have a printing press, which was brought by the Jesuits in 1556 ; Goa's Portuguese colonial rulers also believed in meticulous record-keeping.

The Jesuits furthermore believed that Chinese history dated back before the Flood and was therefore as old as European history.

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 16th and the 17th centuries, the earliest European arrivals in China, the Christian Jesuits, considered Confucianism to be an ethical system, not a religion, and one that was compatible with Christianity.

The casuistic method was popular among Catholic thinkers in the early modern period, and not only among the Jesuits, as it is commonly thought.

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.

When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.

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

* 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 was a student of Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534.

Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but he was not permitted to enter any port his ship arrived at until 15 August, when he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū.

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

Garnet's meeting with Catesby, at which the former was said to have absolved the latter of any blame in the plot, was proof enough that the Jesuits were central to the conspiracy ; according to Coke the Gunpowder Plot would always be known as the Jesuit Treason.

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

During a visit by the Jesuits in March 1581, Nobunaga's interest was piqued by a slave in the service of a Jesuit inspector of missions, and it was requested that he be left in Nobunaga's service.

The " Black Pope " is a name that was popularly, but unofficially, given to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus due to the Jesuits ' importance within the Church.

Although this revolt failed, it was one of the earliest and most serious risings against Spanish authority in the New World and caused the crown to question its continued support for the Jesuits.

Within a few decades of the expulsion, most of what the Jesuits had accomplished was lost.

However a Jesuits ' college, founded in the city in 1571 during the Counter-Reformation, had the right to award degrees from 1611 until 1773, when it was combined with the Academy.

In 1597, he established the Congregatio de Auxiliis which was to settle the theological controversy between the Dominican Order and the Jesuits concerning the respective role of efficacious grace and free will.

Born Giulio Rospigliosi to a noble family of Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, he was a pupil of the Jesuits.

Notwithstanding the meekness and affability of his upright and moderate character, modest to a fault ( he had the classical sculptures in the Vatican provided with mass-produced fig leaves ) and generous with his extensive private fortune, Clement XIII's pontificate was disturbed by perpetual contentions respecting the pressures to suppress the Jesuits coming from the progressive Enlightenment circles of the philosophes in France.

To get a better idea of how the captaincy was Tourinho century and the arrival of the Jesuits, you can read some excerpts from letters written by Manuel da Nobrega or José de Anchieta, priests of the Society of Jesus on the region.

The school bases its academics on the teachings of the Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits.

Martin's problems in dealing with Northern European Jesuits can be better understood if one remembers that the Jesuit dissidents with whom he was familiar in Spain were of the reactionary and anti-intellectual type.

It was founded in 1842 as " The College of the Immaculate Conception at Spinkhill " by Fr Randal Lythgoe, the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus ( better known as the Jesuits ), and is still under the trusteeship of the Society.

Portugal, with its vast sea power, and the Catholic Church, principally through the Spanish Order of the Jesuits, have gained a foothold in Japan and seek to extend their power.

Rapid growth prompted the Jesuits to seek a new campus on Venice Boulevard in 1917 ; with this move, the name of the school was changed back to St. Vincent's College.

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

She at first wished to donate the amount to found a nunnery in Belgium, but with the help of the Jesuits, she decided to leave the monies to the Order and travel to England actively to seek converts to Catholicism and perhaps martyrdom for herself ( Carter 1964 )..

A financial crisis in Maryland forced a group of Belgian Jesuits to seek a new home.

He was accused of conspiring with the aid of four Jesuits to assassinate the Duke of Ormond, and he was forced to seek safety by resigning his position at Court and retiring to the Continent.

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.

By 1622 the Jesuits had a predominant influence over the emperor.

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

In January 1580 he wrote to Mary offering her his services, and in June made a similar offer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, in which he criticised the influence of the Jesuits, and proposed to make a journey to Dieppe to attend Protestant services.

In 1621, with the support of the archdukes Albert and Isabella, the Jesuits brought educational institutions and their religious influence to the city.

* The Hurons had been warned by the Iroquois, prior to Iriquois-Huron conflict of the danger of Jesuit influence, in that the Jesuits seemed to have fair intentions but in fact were part of a greater pattern of colonial control.

The new society of the Jesuits, also met with his violent opposition ; and he was not grateful to them when, after attending the Council of Trent in 1545, he was sent, by their influence, in 1552, as bishop of the far-off see of the Canary Islands.

The Church finally lost its predominant influence on the university when the Jesuits were suppressed following a decree signed by Pope Clement XIII in 1773.

The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati.

He was especially familiar with the anti-Jesuit tradition of Britain, and in Vienna he had made friends with Gerhard van Swieten, a confidant of Maria Theresa of Austria and a staunch adversary of the Austrian Jesuits ' influence.

It was due to his influence and to a letter that he wrote to the Pope against the Jesuits that they were prevented from establishing schools at Kraków during his reign.

In 1856 he visited Rome, during which he noted the influence of the Jesuits.

His main influence was Henri de Lubac, as well as the Jesuits Albert and Paul Chapelle.

De Bernis lost his influence under Pius VI, who was friendly to the Jesuits, to which he was hostile, reduced him almost to penury ; the court of Spain, however, mindful of the support he had given to their ambassador in obtaining the condemnation of the Jesuits, came to his relief with a handsome pension.

All his attempts failed until the death of Narvaez in April 1868, after which Queen Isabella fell more and more under the influence of the Jesuits, and became increasingly tyrannical, until at last even Serrano was exiled.

Canon Jakob zu Eltz was elected Prince-Archbishop of Trier in 1567 ; he was one of the strongest champions of the Counter-Reformation and allied himself with the Jesuits in opposing Lutheran and Calvinist influence in the region.

He put the advance of Jesuits ' influence above adherence to traditional Christian behavior.

First they sided with the French Bourbons to suppress the Jesuits, following the formidable changes in North America after the victory of the United States in the American Revolutionary War and the subsequent loss of Spanish influence.

But some Jesuits at this time placed the expansion of the society's influence before this ideal.

He fell under the influence of Ignatius of Loyola while studying at the University of Paris, and became one of the first Jesuits.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the Order of Jesuits was a great influence on musical life in the Czech lands.

Initially a lukewarm member of the Polish Reformed Church, under the influence of Jesuits and his first wife he converted from Calvinism to Catholicism.