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This Month in Jesuit Catholic History

November 10

1549. Pope Paul III + To him the Society owes its first constitution as a religious order, the Formula of the Institute, approved on 27 September, 1540.

1551. Xavier ends his two-year mission in Japan.

1569. Fr. Sforza Pallavicini, historian of the Council of Trent, was despite his attempts to escape the office, made a cardinal by Pope Alexander VII.

1619. Descartes has a dream/vision/insight into a unitary universal science. Jesuit educated.

November 11

1590. Father Robert Bellarmine was appointed by Gregory XIV to supervise the revision of the Vulgate, a work begun by Sixtus V.

1614. The arm of Xavier brought from Goa to Rome, was received in the Eternal City with extraordinary solemnity.

1616. At Paris died Fr. John Gontery. He was very dull as a scholastic, but imploring Our Lady's help he became a powerful defender of the Church against Calvinists.

1649. In the Philippines, Father Vincent Damiani, a devoted worker in the Lord’s vineyard, was run through with a spear out of hatred of the faith.

1982. Robert Gleason, S.J. + Fordham University, theologian, Grace.

November 12

1606. In the tower of London, Nicholas Owen ("Little John,") was tortured to death on the rack. After death, a hairshirt was found on his body.

1615. At Rome Father Fabius de Fabii, one of the ancient family of the Fabii, had a painful death, having been gored by a savage bull on the way to St. Paul's. He would not seek a miracle from St. Francis Xavier, whose arm had recently been brought to Rome, but preferred to resign himself to God's holy will. He had been Master of Novices, Provincial, and Assistant.

1914. E. Schillebeeckx is born. Theologian. His brother, a Jesuit, was a Provincial in India.

1919. Instruction of Father General Ledochowski on typewriters, Usus machinae dactylographicae 125 . They would be allowed for offices, not for persons, and should not be carried from one house to another.

1982. Vincent O’Keefe, General Assistant to Fr. Arrupe, received the Xavier Award at the 40th annual dinner.

1989. Raymond Adams, S.J. + Anthropologist, superior, teacher. He was murdered in Cape Coast, Ghana by one he was trying to help.

November 13 St. Stanislaus Kostka, religious, Memorial.

1607. Paul Kostka, brother of St. Stanislaus, + in Poland. He had sought admission to the Society. Father General Acquaviva had given him leave to enter, but he died while making his preparations.

1806. The first novitiate in North America is opened. In Maryland Robert Molyneux, Superior, makes his solemn profession to Bishop John Carroll who was empowered by Fr. General Gruber to receive the profession.

1855. Bishop James Oliver Van de Velde, S.J. + Natchez,Miss. A Missiouri Province Jesuit, he was President of St. Louis University and the second bishop of Chicago from 1848-53.

1950. Students move into the new site of Boston College High.

1988. Pope John Paul II prays at the tomb of Stanislaus Kostka, saying that “as a student at the Belgian College, nearly every day I came to pray to St. Stanislaus...”

November 14 St. Joseph Pignatelli, priest. Memorial.

1598. At Ferrara died Fr. Benedict Palmio. Great esteemed as a preacher, he was the first Jesuit to be appointed by the Pope as preacher at the Vatican.

1832. Charles Carroll of Carrolltown +. He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence and the last surviving signer. Jesuit alumnus.

1907. Pedro Arrupe B

1910. John LaFarge + Artist and writer. He is the Father of Jesuit John LaFarge.

1956. Moorhouse I.X. Millar, S.J. + Educator, writer on Church-State. He taught Political Philosophy at Fordham University.

1980. The Jesuit Refugee Service is established by Fr. General Pedro Arrupe.

1983. Fr. General decrees that all Independent Vice-Provinces become Provinces.

2013 Letter of Fr. Nicolas to commemorate the second century anniversary. of the Restoration of the Society 126

2013 Pope Francis canonized Saint Peter Faber, one of the first companions who founded the Society of Jesus with St Ignatius of Loyola and St Francis Xavier Equipollent canonization. A letter of Fr. General on this occasion.

November 15

1536. The nine first companions leave Paris together to go to Venice to meet St. Ignatius there. A 50 day journey.

1628. St. Roch Gonzalez, S.J. an American Indian. is martyred, in Uruguay, with Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J. He is one of the architects of the Jesuit Reductions in Uruguay and Paraguay. His feast is November 16th.

1811. In Rome, the death of Joseph Pignatelli, a Spaniard of noble birth, a golden link between the Old and New Society. He died three years before the Restoration.

1856. Herbert Thurston is born. Prolific author on saints and spiritualists and spirituality..

1948. Louis Twomey inaugurates Christ’s Blueprint for the South , intended originally for social consciousness raising among Jesuits.

November 16  - St. Roch Gonzalez, John del Castillo and Alphonsus Rodriguez, priests and martyrs, Memorial. Old Jesuit Martyrology- Bl. Paul Navarro and companions.

1857. Jon Svennson, S.J. is born. He wrote children’s stories about Iceland, and has been translated into forty languages. A native of Iceland, he wrote in German.

1889. Josef Jungmann, S.J. is born. History of Liturgy.

1968. Cardinal Bea, S.J. + Scripture Scholar, ecumenist. He was Confessor of Pius XI and Pius XII and created a Cardinal in 1959. He was appointed to head Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity at the age of 79.

1989. Six Jesuit priests, and two co-workers martyred by government backed troops in San Salvador, in an attempt to destroy the University of Central America. Ignacio Ellacuria and Ignacio Martin-Baro are among the dead