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Letter from Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, to Charles III regarding the Jesuits’ property (1773)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:11 +0000

The extinction of the Jesuits provoked a conflict between the Papacy and Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. The dialectic and conflict of power between Church and State was reflected in the fact that Maria Theresa wanted the assets obtained from the Jesuits to go to her civil jurisdiction, to the detriment of the Vatican’s claims. The Empress argued that in Spain, France, Portugal and Naples the goods of the Society fell to the State. Charles III supported her in this request.

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Dossier on the evangelisation of the Thieves Islands or Mariana Islands

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Jesuit Luis Pimentel’s request for more religious

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000

Within the framework of the evangelisation process in the Indies and other Spanish colonies, the Spanish monarchy developed an intense evangelisation process in the Mariana Islands and, by extension, in the Pacific territories under its dominion. In the case of the Philippines, this evangelisation was carried out intensively by Jesuits. In the same way, from the Philippines, the idea of trying to evangelise eastern territories, such as China, was postulated, as requested by Luis Pimentel, procurator general of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines.

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House of Ignatius of Loyola

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

During the 16th century, the Society of Jesus, a religious order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, emerged. Iñigo López de Recalde, a native of Azpeitia, initially dedicated himself to military service, as a result of which he took part in the defence of Pamplona (1521) against the French. Iñigo López was wounded in that battle, which forced him to retire from arms. This situation led to his preference for books and education; he invested his time in prayer, the apostolate, teaching, caring for the sick and defining a new religious order whose statutes were approved by the Pope in 1540.

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Expulsion and exile of the Jesuits from Charles III’s dominions

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000

This website addresses the question of the Jesuit expulsion by providing bibliographical references and other texts and documentation, approaching the study from different points of view. It also contains interesting web links and shows information about the Jesuit Research Group of the University of Alicante. The Society of Jesus, created in 1540, whose nature was distinguished as Renaissance, cultured and freedom-loving in its initiatives, played an important role in the Counter-Reformation and in the evangelisation of the New World, as well as in its proximity to monarchs such as Philip V and Ferdinand VI. However, in the middle of the Enlightenment there was a clash with the political institution. The Spanish Jesuits were accused, among other things, of sympathising with the theory of regicide, of having encouraged the Esquilache mutiny a year earlier and of defending laxity in their colleges and universities. The banishment, which took place in the early hours of 2 April 1767, was part of a major political manoeuvre that had been in the making since April 1766, when the “Secret Investigation” of the public prosecutor Campomanes was launched, created with the excuse of uncovering those guilty of the riots in Madrid in March of the same year, but whose real aim was to implicate the Society of Jesus in the popular disturbances that had caused the monarch to flee Madrid. Their property was seized and they were only allowed to take some of their personal effects with them.

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