Company of Jesus
Americannoun
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Mama Antula collaborated in the performance of spiritual exercises based on the writings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Company of Jesus in 1534, according to her biographer.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
The church of Saint-Paul has long needed a monstrance in keeping with the magnificence of that basilica, itself due to the Company of Jesus.
From Bureaucracy by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
The Company of Jesus possessed a fine and valuable library, containing about one hundred and seventy thousand volumes.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
Many of these are vast buildings, but no one of them is to be compared with the great Jesuit convent, which was the central home and head-quarters of the "Company of Jesus."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
It is not necessary to suppose the presence of any member of the Company of Jesus, in order to account for the image on the neck of the Indian woman.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill
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