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
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
The Rev Valentin Closa, of the Company of Jesus, who for many years has had charge here, found that some visitors were so irresponsible that thefts were of almost daily occurrence.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton
Suppose we throw all our energies into the practical building of a new house of faith, the gathering and organising of a new Company of Jesus!'
From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The congregation of the college of La Flèche had then the good fortune of being directed by Father Bagot, one of those superior priests always so numerous in the Company of Jesus.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Leblond de Brumath, Adrien
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