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Inigo Lopez (St. Ignatius de Loyola) is born in the Basque region in Spain in a city named Loyola.
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The Protestant Reformation begins when German monk, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church door in Germany.
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The Company of Jesus is formed by St. Ignatius and six of his peers in the crypt of the chruch, Saint Pierre de Montmartre.
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On September 27, 1540, the Society of Jesus was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola under Pope Paul III, but is limited to sixty members.
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St. FrancisXavier arrives in the city of Goa in Western India. This begins a decade of evangelism in India.
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St. Ignatius is elected by his peers as Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
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The limitation on the amount of members in the society is removed through the bull, Injuctum nobis.
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The term Jesuit, which means one who used too frequently or appropriated the name of Jesus, is used in dissaproval of the Society of Jesus. It is later adopted by the members of the society as a positive name.
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A Japanese junk brings St. Francis Xavier and a Japanese convert to Japan. While he is there, Xavier converts over 1000 Japanese to Christianity.
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Gregorian University is founded in 1551 as the first Jesuit university in Rome.
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The founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius of Loyola, dies of a stomach related illness. By the time of his death there are 1000 members of the Society of Jesus.
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In 1598, Ratio Sudiorum is written. It is the basis of Jesuit education through out the world.
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Ignatius of Loyola is canonized a saint in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV.
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Between 1759 and 1761, the Portuguese arrests all the Jesuits in its territories and ships them to the back to Portugal. In 1761-3, all of the Jesuit colleges in France are closed. In 1767 Jesuits are expelled from Spain and its colonies. Finally on Jul 16, 1773, Pope Clement XIV succembs to secular threats and suppresses the Jesuits. They are suppressed all over the world except for Russia, where Catherine of Sienna refused to suppress them.
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Pope Pius restores the Society of Jesus on August 7, 1814 immediately after his return to Rome from his captivity in France
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Boston College, a private Jesuit university, is founded by Benedict Joseph Fenwick. It is arguably the best Jesuit unisversity in the United States.
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On Novermber 20, 1989, six Jesuits were massacred in El Salvador. Their names are Ignacio Ellacuria, Ignacio Martin-Baro,Segundo Montes,Arnando Lopez,Joaquin Lopez y Lopez,Juan Ramon Moreno, and Julia Elba Ramos
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The Society of Jesus is the largest Christian order in the world, with over 19,000 Jesuits around the world. The Superior General is Adolfo Nicolás.
