Jesuits were driven from their churches and colleges

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Rob2

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St Andrew Bobola

Celebrated on May 21st

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A martyr and Jesuit priest , this Polish saint was born in 1591. He became a Jesuit at Vilno (Vilnius) in 1609 where he preached at the church of St Casimir before being appointed superior at the house at Bobruysk. During an epidemic of plague he worked night and day caring for the sick and dying.

Later he served as a missionary, bringing whole villages of Orthodox Christians into communion with the Catholics. This caused considerable animosity from the Cossacks. The Jesuits were driven from their churches and colleges and forced to hide in the marshes. King Radziwill gave them a house in Pinsk in 1652. This was captured by the Cossacks in 1657. After undergoing many tortures, Andrew Bobola was killed around this time in 1657. His body was buried at Pinsk. In 1808 it was translated to Polotsk when it was found to be incorrupt.

During the Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks took the saint’s remains to Moscow. In 1922 they were moved to Rome. St Andrew is now buried in the Jesuit church in Warsaw. He was canonised in 1938.

(from ICN)
 
There was a great article (by a Jesuit, of course) in Sangta Clara’s magazine a few years back about the order in the US.

Basically, we owe our wealth of Jesuit schools to them being kicked out of Europe during the Napoleanic wars . . .they came here, and got back to work with a vengeance.

Santa Clara, all of the assorted Loyolas, Ignatius’, Zaviers, and Gonzagas, and so forth.

And the associated high schools that started with those schools.
 
Actually, they were kicked out of most of Catholic Europe (and Central/South America) decades before the Napoleon ic Wars. Then they were suppressed entirely. Many of them fled to Russia, until the general suppression was lifted by the Pope after the Napoleon ic Wars. They were not really welcomed back in Europe, so they largely made their comeback in the US.

I think it was Voltaire who once said, “Destroy the Jesuits, and the Catholic Church will be gone in 25 years”. It was somewhat prophetic. The Jesuits were suppressed 25 years before the French Revolution.
 
Rob2. On a technical note: there was no king Radziwill. It was Jan Kazimierz of the Waza dynasty who ruled at that time.
 
tafan2 said:
I think it was Voltaire who once said, “Destroy the Jesuits, and the Catholic Church will be gone in 25 years”. It was somewhat prophetic. The Jesuits were suppressed 25 years before the French Revolution.
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Yet the Church is still here. Although the faith in France has been irreparably altered since the French Revolution.
 
Yes it is, but it was a near run thing. Not a few clergy took the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790.
 
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