July
July 1, 1798: The colossal silver statue of Ignatius in
the Gesu in Rome was carried off by French officials during the
revolution and melted down. The exact day is uncertain.
July 2, 1565: St Francis Borgia is elected general in the Second General Congregation of the Society.
July 3, 1634: Fr Andrew White baptizes the Chief of the Piscatoway Indians, his wife, and his son.
July 4, 1558: To celebrate the election of Fr James Laynez as general of the Society on July 2 (who had been Vicar General since the death of Ignatius), the scholastics in Rome gave an academic exhibition in the Pantheon.
July 5, 1537: After investigating some charges made against Ignatius, the Papal Nuncio at Venice delivered a formal verdict of his innocence.
July 6, 1572: The solemn profession of Father, later to be Cardinal, Robert Bellarmine.
July 7, 1586: Frs Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell arrive in England to begin their work.
July 8, 1597: Fr. Louis Froes, a Portuguese, who for 33 years
labored in Japan amid privations, mishaps and trials of every
kind, died at Nagasaki.
July 9, 1553: The province of Brazil
was established with 33 Jesuits.
July 10, 1678: At Vilnius,
Fr. Thomas Ujeyski, former bishop of Chijov and senator of
Poland, completed his noviceship and received a special privilege
admitting him to the profession of the four vows.
July 11, 1742: Pope Benedict XIV's Bull "Ex quo singulari" was signed
condemning the Chinese Rites and abolishing all concessions made
by the Patriarch Mezzabarba.
July 12, 1544: At King John III
of Portugal's request, Peter Faber left Cologne for Lisbon.
July 13, 1572: The first band of Jesuit missionaries entered
Mexico.
July 14, 1979: The assassination in Guyana of Bernard
Darke, SJ, a photographer for the Catholic Standard, a diocesan
newspaper.
July 15, 1570: The martyrdom of Blessed Ignacio
Azevedo along with 39 companions, near Palma, one of the Canary
Isles. En route to Brazil as missionaries, they were captured by
Calvinist corsairs.
July 16, 1576: Pope Gregory XIII, by his
Constitution "Quaecumque sacrarum religionum," exempted members
of the Society from attendance at public processions.
July 17, 1866: Gerard Manley Hopkins decided to become a Catholic.
July 18, 1586: Fathers Henry Garnet and St. Robert Southwell met
Fr. William Weston at Mr. Bold's house in Berkshire.
July 19, 1688: The birth of Br. Giuseppe Castiglione, SJ, a skilled
Italian painter who at age 27 set sail for China where he
"undertook the role of the official painter to this distant court
with the positive conviction that art was above all a means of
carrying out his evangelical mission."
July 20, 1624: At Cracow died John Laskowski, a Polish scholastic, who
though not
conscious of any mortal sin in his whole life was nonetheless so
tormented with scruples that his confessor considered him a
martyr of interior suffering.
July 21, 1550: Through his
Bull, "Exposcit debitum," Pope Julius III again confirmed the
Institute of the Society.
July 22, 1534: In Paris, the first Mass of Peter Faber.
July 23, 1879: Frs. Depelchin, Law and others arrived in South Africa
at Shoshong and were introduced to King Khama.
July 24, 1575:In Rome, Fr. Robert Parsons entered the Society.
July 25, 1583: The martyrdom near Goa, India, of Blessed Rudolph Aquaviva,
peter Berno, Francis Aranha, Alphonsus Pacheco and Anthony
Francisco.
July 26, 1867: At Ellsworth, Kansas, Fr. Louis
Dumortier, a Frenchman, died while attending cholera patients.
July 27, 1597: At Cracow died Fr. James Wujek, a Pole,
appointed by King Stephen tutor to Prince Sigismund. He
translated the Polish version of the Bible.
July 28, 1568: In
a letter to Fr. Christopher Rodriguez, St. Teresa of Avila,
speaking of the Society, says, "Homines Societatis Jesu sunt mei
patres, quibus post Deum debet anima mea bonum omne si quod
habet."
July 29, 1586: At Toledo, Fr. John Manuel, rector of the
Professed House, died.
July 30, 1627: In the grotto of
Manresa drops of blood were seen to fall from a miraculous
crucifix.
July 31, 1926: The New England Province was
established.
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August
August 1, 1569: Edmund Campion, convinced of the
errors of the new religion, abandoned the University of Oxford
and all his brilliant prospects.
August 2, 1981: Carlos Perez
Alonso, SJ, chaplain at a military hospital in Guatemala,
disappeared and is presumed to have been killed during a period
of repression.
August 3, 1544: Francis Xavier wrote a letter
at Manipur, India, to Fr. Francis Mansilla asking prayers for the
conversion of the people.
August 4, 1578: In Africa, Fr.
Gaspar Serpe, a Portuguese, was slain by a Moor while confessing
a wounded soldier. He was chaplain to King Sebastian's army in
Africa.
August 5, 1574: At Santo Domingo, the shipwreck of seven Spanish
Jesuits sailing for Mexico. They escaped death and eventually
reached their destination.
August 6, 1573: Pope Gregory XIII
published his Bull "Postquam Deo placuit," which founded the
German College.
August 7, 1879: The New York Province was
established.
August 8, 1581: Fr. Anthony Possevino was
received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of
Russia.
August 9, 1556: After the death of Ignatius, Fr.
James Laynez was empowered to govern the Society as Vicar till
the election of another General.
August 10, 1868: The Society
was expelled from Mexico and all its property confiscated.
August 11, 1558: In the First General Congregation, after a
discussion on the simple vows, it was decreed "nihil immutandum."
Aug. 12, 1600: Fr. Antolinez, an Augustinian friar, wrote a
letter in defense of Fr. Molina's book "De scientia media."
Aug. 13, 1773: Pope Clement XIV published the Brief "Gravissimis
ex causis" which established a special congregation of five
cardinals to superintend the Suppression of the Society of Jesus,
the appropriation of its houses and goods.
Aug. 14, 1591: At
Rome died Fr. Jerome Platus, a Milanese, author of the work "On
the Happiness of a Religious State." He was the Latin secretary
to Fr. General for France and Germany and had care of the novices
who served in the Gesu including Aloysius Gonzaga.
Aug. 15, 1955: The Wisconsin Province was formed from the Missouri
Province and the Detroit Province was formed from the Chicago
province.
Aug. 16, 1649: At Drogheda, Fr. John Bath and his
brother, a secular priest, were shot in the marketplace by
Cromwell's soldiers.
Aug. 17, 1823: Fr. Van Quickenborne and
a small band of missionaries descended the Missouri River to
evangelize the Indians at the request of the bishop of St. Louis.
On this date in 1829, the College of St. Louis opened.
Aug. 18, 1952: The death of Alberto Hurtado, writer, retreat director,
trade unionist and founder of "El Hogar de Christo," a movement
to help the homeless in Chile.
Aug. 19, 1846: At Melgar, near
Burgos, the birth of Fr. Luis Martin, 24th General of the
Society.
Aug. 20, 1891: At Santiago, Chile, the government of
Balmaceda ordered the Jesuit College to be closed.
Aug. 21, 1616: At Pont a Mousson in Lorraine died Fr. William Murdoch, a
Scotchman, who when only 10 years of age was imprisoned seven
months for the faith and cruelly beaten by the order of a
Protestant bishop. St. Ignatius is said to have appeared to him
and encouraged him to bear the cross bravely.
Aug. 22, 1872:
Jesuits were expelled from Germany during the Bismarckian
Kulturkampf.
Aug. 23, 1558: In the First General
Congregation, the question was discussed about the General's
office being triennial, and the introduction of Choir, as
proposed by Pope Paul IV, and it was decreed that the
Constitutions ought to remain unaltered.
Aug. 24, 1544: Peter Faber arrived in Lisbon.
Aug. 25, 1666: At Beijing, the death
of Fr. John Adam Schall. By his profound knowledge of mathematics
and astronomy, he attained such fame that the Emperor entrusted
to him the reform of the Chinese calendar.
Aug. 26, 1562: The return of Fr. Diego Laynez from France to Trent, the Fathers of
the Council desiring to hear him speak on the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass.
Aug. 27, 1679: The martyrdom at Usk, England, of
St. David Lewis, apostle to the poor in his native Wales for
three decades before he was caught and hanged.
Aug. 28, 1628:
The martyrdom in Lancashire, England, of St. Edmund Arrowsmith.
Aug. 29, 1541: At Rome the death of Fr. John Codure, a
Savoyard, one of the first 10 companions of St. Ignatius.
Aug. 30, 1556: On the banks of the St. Lawrence River, Fr.
Leonard Garreau, a young missionary, was mortally wounded by the
Iroquois.
Aug. 31, 1581: In St. John's Chapel within the
Tower of London, a religious discussion took place between St.
Edmund Campion, suffering from recent torture, and some
Protestant ministers.
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