Pedro de Ribadeneira and the Use of Sources: Critical History and Hagiography in the Early Society of Jesus Robert E. Scully, S.J. Le Moyne College Originally published: April 20, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.02 Where can and should one draw the line between fact and fiction, norms and ideals, history and hagiography? The […]
From Tintype to Twitter: Photography at the Irish Jesuit Archives[1] Damien Burke Irish Archives of the Society of Jesus Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.09 Introduction Photographs are fragile objects: physically, they are easily torn, discolored, and mislaid; digitally, the advent of smartphones with the maelstrom of social media means
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Between Identity and History: Giovanni Antonio Valtrino and His Vocazioni meravigliose alla Compagnia di Gesù Irene Gaddo Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.03 Introduction Giovanni Antonio Valtrino (1556–1601) began to assemble his Vocazioni meravigliose alla Compagnia (Marvelous vocations to the Society)[1] just after he entered
Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus on July 21, 1773. In the preceding decades, the Jesuits had suffered expulsions from the Catholic empires of Portugal (1759), France (1764), and Spain (1767), where they had become handy scapegoats for kings or princes under civic pressure. In Portugal, for example, charges against the Society included
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Brill has published A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism, edited by Robert Maryks, a collection of thirteen essays on the mystical tradition of the Society of Jesus. According to Brill, this tradition is a “somewhat neglected aspect of Jesuit historiography.” Several key figures in the Jesuit mystical tradition are examined, from Baltasar Álvarez to Louis Lallemant to
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