Show THE TH E COMPANY COM PANY OF JESUS J ES S The election of Father Francis Xav Xavier Xavier ier Werm a German as general of the Company of Jesus will for a n time at attract attract attract tract attention to that organization The order ardor was founded rounded in 1540 by b St Ignatius Loyola and approved by b Paul PaulS S III There are four classes of or mem members bers the brothers or temporal coad coadjutors coadjutors coadjutors the scholastics the coadjutors spiritual and the professed The coad coadjutors coadjutors coadjutors spiritual are arc priests who take the vows of or chastity poverty and aId obe obedience Only tho the professed have any voice In the government of the organ organization organization The expressed purpose of the order Is the personal sanctification of its members the education of the tha young and preaching and missions At the outset it had seven members Today the estimated number is about termed the golden age 1 ge of ot the Jesuits lasted about a century Dur During DurIng DurIng ing that time the order produced many saints as a well vell as many scholars be besides besides besides sides establishing numerous missions As early as 1625 they canto came to America first t engaging on in missionary work workaround workaround workaround around Quebec Long before that to tobe tobe tobe be exact in 1549 1649 they opened a mission in Ir Brazil About the same time they visited Chile ChUe Peru and Mexico The society was suppressed by Po Clement Y v In 1773 im on the gr f the numerous complaints and of which the society without r innocence Ma a ties followed foU wed Frederick the Great and Catherine of Russia gave them shelter but the doors of ot mos most countries were closed to them and finally in 1814 after some partial restorations Plus Pius VII restored them by the th bull known as Solicitude To this day though in many Eu European European and some some South American A n ican Countries they are forbidden to teach publicly or to associate It was estimated in 1889 that there were 1258 Jesuits in the United States in Canada in England and in Ireland Since that year their num numbers numbers bers hers have increased in all of ot these countries The new general Father rather whose selection is said to have hove given Pope Plus Pius great pleasure is 64 years old Practically all his life Ufo has been spent In the order as he entered it in tn 1857 at the ago age of 15 16 years He was born at and for years has been very prominent In the company company Father is known to I Catholics in this country through his writings on canon law and ond other ot er mat matters matters matters pertaining to his branch of ot Cath Oath Catholicism Catholicism |