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Cæsar, Julius, character of, 7

Calvinism, doctrines of, 183

Calvinists, persecution of, 270, 273

Campion, his mission to England, 154; arrest of, 161; trial of, 163

Candia, Duke of, aids the Jesuits, 62

Candidates for the Order, requirements of, 31-37, 448

Canisius, Peter, 62

—— founds the College of Friburg, 206

Canonization, rules for, 258-262, 310 _n._

—— of Loyola and Xavier, 262

Cano, a Dominican friar, preaches against the Jesuits, 78; is made Bishop of the Canaries, 79

Canova, statue of Clement XIII by, 361

Caraffa, General, 317, 318, see “Paul IV”

Cardinals, Jesuit, 408

Carlos, Don, supported by the Jesuits, 451

Carvalho, Minister of Portugal, 331; created Marquis of Pombal, 332; see “Pombal”

Casimir, King of Poland, 282

Castilians, revolt of the, 450

Catechisms, Jesuit, 197

Catesby, 286

Catherine of Austria, deposed by the Jesuits, 171

—— de Medicis, opposes the Jesuits, 176, 177

—— of Russia, protects the Jesuits, 430, 431

Catholicism, decline of, 58

Catholics, Roman, first persecuted in England, 163

Cave of Manreze, the place of Loyola’s retirement, 13

Ceremonies, Catholic, 249, 250, 262

Chiaramonti, 438; re-establishes the Jesuits, 439

Charles I, of England, 290

—— III, of Spain, 349; expels the Jesuits, 350; his motives for, 352-354; seeks to destroy the Jesuits, 379

—— V, opposes the Order, 75

—— IX, of France, 179

Chastel, John, attempts to assassinate Henry IV, 188; his punishment, 189, 190

China, Jesuit mission to, 105

Choiseul, minister of France, 331; attempts to reform the Order, 346; character of, 347, 348

Christina of Sweden and the Jesuits, 282, 283

Church of England agitated by Catholic aggression, 163

—— Evangelical, of Cracow, attacked by the Jesuits, 280

—— of Rome, decline of the, 8, 9; doctrines of, 14, 15, 40; condition of, in the 16th century, 30, 31; supremacy of, 195; restoration of, in Austria, 201; in Sweden, 203; arrogance of, towards England, 467

Churches of America, 299

Civilization, progress of, 7

Civita Vecchia, arrival of French troops at, 475; becomes a French port, 477

Classes of Jesuits, 46, 462

Clement VIII, Pope, 231, 232

—— XIII, 338; his partiality for the Fathers, 339; protects the Jesuits, 357, 359; death of, 360; monument of, by Canova, 361

—— XIV, 371; character of, 372, 383, 420; is elected Pope, 375; policy of, 376, 378; hesitates to suppress the Jesuits, 381-384; death of, 412; mysterious cause of the, 414-420

Clergy, Roman Catholic, two classes of, 178 _n._; subjected to the Jesuits, 272

Coadjutors, 44, 49, 50

Code of legislature for Jesuit schools, 213-215

—— moral of the Jesuits, 230-252

Coimbra, first college of the Jesuits founded at, 62

College of Cardinals, 253

Colleges of the Society, 39, 48, 62, 90; endowed by Gregory XIII, 150; class of education imparted in, 214; rules for the admission of pupils to, ibid.; internal life of the, 219; discipline in, 221; education of English youths in, 152, 153, 168; established in France, 178, 458; character of, 185; in Germany, 196, 452; in Austria, 200; in Switzerland, 206; in Spain, 451; in Galicia, 452; in England, 459; in Ireland, 461; in Italy, 484; number of at the time the Society was suppressed, 408

Cologne, Jesuits in, 196

Commerce of the Order, seat of, 277; character of, in Europe, 335, 336

Commotions among the Jesuits, 209

Communism in America, 303

Companions of the Order, 23, 24

Company of Jesus, 45, see “Society of”

Conclave, affairs of the, 368-372

Confession, doctrine of, 41, 238-244, 287; practised in Jesuit colleges, 220 _n._, 221 _n._

Confessors, importance of, 236, 237; influence of, 322; to the Kings of France, 254, 255, 267, 271, 272

—— influence of, in Portugal, 171; removal of, 335

Congregation of rites, 259, 260 _n._

Congregations, or assemblies of the Order, 53; origin of the, 217; various denominations of, ibid.; abolished by the Parliament, 348

Congregations, general, 53; difficulties of assembling, 134; influence of the, 217; decrees of, 277, 278

—— of the Holy Virgin, 217, 455

—— provincial, 56

—— of the Sacred Heart, 455

Congress of Poissey, 143

—— of Worms, 58

Consalves de Camera, influence of, in Portugal, 171

Conspiracies of the Jesuits in England, 164, 165, 285, 286, 292

—— in France, 179, 186

—— in Portugal, 172, 173, 276

Conspirators, trial and execution of, in England, 285, 289

Constitution of the Society, 30; analysis of the, 31-33; changes in the, 317; exposition of the, 345

Convent of Santa Martha, 59

—— of Santa Catherine, 59

Converts, Jesuit, 463

Cordeliers, Order of, 369

Corsica, Jesuits in, 358

Cotton, Father, apologetic letter of, 255

Council of Poissey, 177

—— Seize, 182 _n._

—— Trent, 143, 144

Court of Rome, struggles with the Jesuits, 235, 328; succumbs to the Order, 322; two distinct powers of the, 363

Cracow, Evangelical Church of, attacked by the Jesuits, 280

Creed, political, of the Jesuits, 191-193

Creighton, conspiracy of, 164

Crétineau-Joly, writings of, 15; on the conspiracies in England, 161, 166; on the “Imago Primi Sæculi”, 265; on the conspiracies in Portugal, 271; on the conduct of the Jesuits in England, 458, 459; on “Puseyism,” 464

Cromwell, Jesuits discouraged by, 291

Crusades, 475

Cyran, St., 232, 233