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 work for the Company of Jesus being finished, I returned to Florence in the year 1555 with all my family, to serve Duke Cosimo.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Vasari, Giorgio
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
Most likely over them, or at their elbows, were set priests who before entering the Company of Jesus had been soldiers: for there were many such amongst the Jesuits.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
Cardenas, who, we may remember, was homme à visions, called in the rector of the Jesuit college to inform him that the Company of Jesus had a new martyr in their ranks.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
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