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Some International Aspects of the Activity of the Jesuits in the New World*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

S. J. Miguel Batllori
S. J. Miguel Batllori*
Affiliation:
Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesu, Rome, Italy
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IBELIEVE that only because of this international aspect, which above all showed itself prominent in the activity of the Jesuits in America during the seventeenth century, can we be speaking in a special way of the Jesuits at this international meeting, which corresponds to the Pan American tone of the chapter written by Doctor Zavala.

This “internationality” of the Company of Jesus was not something exclusive to the Jesuits in America. It came from the very times of Saint Ignatius (1556), when not only in the European colleges but also in the missions of the Orient and of Brazil—the only ones founded before 1556—Jesuits of different nationalities were always living together.

An Order so essentially international of necessity had to have a greater unity of hierarchy and of thought to give it coherence and efficacy.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , January 1958 , pp. 432 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1958

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Footnotes

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Miguel Batllori, S. J. is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Gregorian University, Rome, and an editor of the Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu. He is corresponding member of the Real Academia de Bones Lletres, and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans of Barcelona, of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de Argentina, and of the Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía. Among his important works are the following: El abate Viscardo. Historia y mito de la intervención de los Jesuitas en la independencia de Hispanoamérica (Caracas, 1953); Vinteresse americanista nell’ Italia del Settecento. Il contributo spagnolo e portoghese (Genoa, 1951); “La etnología filipina entre los Jesuítas expulsos, 1773–1800,” Archivum Historicum S.J., XXIII (1953), 345–351. Address: Borgo S. Spirito, Rome 5, Italy.

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