EXPULSIONS OF THE JESUITS by Rocky Mountain American

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1893

EXPULSIONS OF THE JESUITS.

By Rocky Mountain American

THE following list of countries from which the Jesuits have been banished will be of interest to many of our readers:—

From Saragossa in 1555, La Palintine 1558, Vienna 1566, Avignon 1570, Antwerp, Portugal, and Sagovia 1578, England 1579, England again 1581, England again 1586, Japan 1587, Hungary and Transylvania 1588, Bordeaux 1589, the whole of France 1594, Holland 1596, the city of Tournon and Berne 1597, England 1602, England again 1604, Denmark, Thorn, and Venice 1606, Venice again 1612, the kingdom of Amura in Japan 1613, Bohemia 1618, Moravia 1619, Naples and the Netherlands 1622, China and India 1623, Malta 1634, Russia 1723, Savoy 1729, Paraguay 1733,

Portugal 1759, France again 1764, Spain and the two Sicilies 1767, the Duchy of Parma and Malta 1768, from all Christendom by the Bull of Clement XIV., in 1768.

During their suppression (from 1773 till 1814), the Jesuits assumed various names and characters, such as "Adorers of Jesus," "Redemptorists," "Brothers of the Christian Doctrine," "Brothers of the Congregation of the Holy Virgin," "Fathers of Faith," etc. In this period they were expelled as follows: From Russia in 1776, France 1804, one of the Swiss Cantons (Grison) about 1804, Naples 1810, France again 1806.

After the restoration of the Jesuits by papal edict in 1814 expulsions have been issued against them in nearly every nation in Europe.—Rocky Mountain American.