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Jesuit order   /dʒˈɛʒuɪt ˈɔrdər/   Listen
Jesuit order

noun
1.
A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship.  Synonym: Society of Jesus.





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"Jesuit order" Quotes from Famous Books



... Solana was born in Castilla, June 1, 1594; at the age of eighteen he entered the Jesuit order, and ten years later (1622) came to the Philippines. During twenty years he ministered to both the Spaniards and the natives, and later was (twice) provincial, and procurator-general at Madrid. He died at San Miguel, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various


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