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D.

Days of the barricades in France, 181

Decrees against the Jesuits in Portugal, 342; execution of the, 355; in England, 161; in Spain, 351

Democracy, encouraged by the Jesuits, 194

Diet of Nuremberg, 30

Dissensions among the Jesuits, 210

Doctrine of absolution, 13, 243-245

—— of confession, 140, 238-243, 287

—— of equivocation, 244

—— of free will, 231

—— of grace, 231

—— of infallibility, 233, 234

—— of transgression, 238

Doctrines of the Church of Rome, 13, 18, 40

—— of the Gallican Church, 177, 178, 179 _n._

—— of Jansenius, 233, 234

—— of the Jesuits, 168, 191, 194, 230-234, 236-250

Dominicans oppose the Jesuits, 231

Don Carlos supported by the Jesuits, 451

—— Pedro, Jesuits expelled from Portugal by, 451

Dress of the Jesuits, 43

Dubarry, Mme de, 386

Du Prat, Bishop of Clermond, establishes the Jesuits in Paris, 84

E.

Earthquake of Lisbon, 334

Edict of Nantes, 270; revoked, 271

Edicts of Henry VIII, 63

—— of Queen Elizabeth against the Jesuits, 157

Education of the Jesuits, 48, 196, 197; the cause of their influence, 213; course of, 221; character of, 222, 224

Election of Generals, 49, 53, 136, 145, 149, 256

—— of Popes, party struggles for the, 362, 367, 369

Electors, 408

Elizabeth, Queen, persecuted by the Jesuits, 153, 284; character given her by the Catholics, 154; projected assassination of, 164, 165; excommunication of, 162; her opinions on the apostacy of Henry IV of France, 183 _n._

Elliot, conspirators betrayed by, 161

Emancipation Act, tendency of, to check the Jesuits, 462

Emperor, attachment of the Romans to the title, 366

Emperors of Austria, 278, 450

—— of France, 436, 438, 447, 448, 455

—— of Germany, 75, 365, 368

Emeute des Chapeaux, 350

Emmanuel Sa on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 191, 192

Encyclopædists, 329; attempt to reform the Order, 347; the French revolution ascribed to, 437

England, dawn of the Reformation in, 8; mission of the Jesuits to, 63-70, 151-156; conduct of the Jesuits in, 158-162, 283; peace of, disturbed by them, 169, 284, 292; present relation of the Jesuits to, 194; their plots in, 284-296; position of, during their suppression, 453; Jesuits, refugees, admitted to, 459; causes which tend to check their progress in, 462; efforts to restore Romanism in, 464; destruction of, intended by the Jesuits, 465, 466; Italy abandoned by, 476; Jesuit emissaries in, 464

Epitome of the history of the Jesuits in Portugal, 332-335

Equivocation, Jesuit doctrine of, 244

Escobar, on the moral doctrines of the Jesuits, 236

Estates in England given to the Jesuits, 459; consequences of, 460

Establishments of the Order, 366, 410

Europe, state of, in the sixteenth century, 1; commerce of the Jesuits in, 335-337; moral condition of, at the period of the French revolution, 436, 437

Eve of St. Bartholomew, massacre on the, 148, 159

Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth, 162; of Henry III of France, 181; of the Duke of Parma, 358

Exeter, Lord Bishop of, a supposed member of the secret class, 464

Execution of Jesuits in England, 163, 165

—— in France, 189

—— in Portugal, 341

Exercises, religious, in the Church of Rome, 17; for the Novitiates, 46-48

F.

Fathers of the Faith, 422; take part in the French revolution, 455; abolished by Napoleon, ibid.

Ferdinand aids the Jesuits in persecuting the Protestants, 278; is again associated with them, 450

Florence, persecution of Protestants at, 477

Florida Blanca, Count, Spanish Ambassador to Rome, 385; his hatred of the Jesuits, 427

Fortis elected General, 449

Founders of colleges, benefits derived by, 39

Founders of the Society, 29

France, mission of the Jesuits to, 62; opposes the Order, 83-88, 175, 177; progress of the Jesuits in, 178, 181; origin of the civil wars in, 179; expulsion of Jesuits from, 189, 349; readmits them, 224-226, 450; influence of the Jesuits in, 253, 266, 272, 274; their overthrow in, 328, 330, 458; causes of the, 329, 343; encourages political reform, 331; revolutions in, 436, 455, 457; present position of the Jesuits in, 458, 489

Frederick of Prussia protects the Jesuits, 423; explanations of his conduct, 427-429

Free Will, doctrine of, 231

Friburg, college of, founded, 206; present condition of the, 450; congregation of, 217

G.

Gaeta, Pope Pius IX takes refuge at, 474

Galicia, Jesuits in, 435; schools and colleges of, 452

Ganganelli, 369; character of, 370, 372, 374; elected Pope under the title of Clement XIV, 371, 375; slandered by the Jesuits, 411; decline and death of, 413-420; his successor, 425 See also Clement XIV

Garnet, connection of with Gunpowder Plot, 286

Generals of the Order:— Acquaviva, elected, 1581, 210; Barzozowski, 1805, 448; Borgia, 1567, 146; Caraffa, 1646, 317; Czerniwiecz, 432; Fortis, 1820, 449; Gonzales, 1687, 324; Gottifredi, 1652, 319; Grouba, 1801, 432; Koller, 432; Lainez, 1558, 136; Lenkeawiecz, 432; Loyola, 1541, 58; Mercurianus, 1572, 150; Nickel, 1652, 319; Noyelle, 1681, 324; Oliva, 1664, 320; Piccolomini, 1649, 319; Ricci, 1758, 357; Rootham, 1829, 458; Tambourini, 1705, 325; Vitelleschi, 1615, 256

—— powers of, 31-34, 45, 48; election of, 49, 53, 136, 145, 319; limitation of the office, 137, 212; their influence on the congregations, 217; diminished power of, 256; their office in canonization, 311 _n._

Genoa, Jesuits repulsed from, 358

Germany, dawn of the Reformation in, 8; mission of the Jesuits to, 59; decline of the Order in, 75, 76; Jesuit influence in, 194; miseries arising to the country from, 278; Princes of, limit the authority of the Jesuits, 327, 328; Joseph, Emperor of, visits Rome, 365-369; Jesuits dismissed from, 452; present position of, ibid.

Gesù, visit of the Emperor Joseph to the, 366, 367; Jesuits re-assembled at the, 447

Gioberti on the “Secret Class,” 46; on the “Spirit of the Constitution,” 317; his death, 473 _n._

Goa, arrival of Xavier at, 101; character of the inhabitants, 102

Gospels, as translated by the Jesuits, 185

Gottifredi, elected General of the Order, 319

Grace, doctrine of, 231

Great Britain, increased influence of the Jesuits in, 153, 465

Gregory XIII, 149; colleges founded by, 150, 153; his enmity to England, 159; to John of Sweden, 205; assemblies organized by, 217

Grenada, Jesuits in, 139, 287

Grouber, chosen General in Russia, 432, 433

Guise, Duke of, 179; chosen chief of the Holy Alliance, 180; his ambition and death, 181

Guinard executed in France, 189

Gunpowder Plot, connection of the Jesuits with, 283-286; results of the, 292

H.

Habeas Corpus Act, origin of the, 292

Hanover, House of, conduct of the Jesuits under the, 459

Henry III of France, 179; character of, 180, 181; death of, 182

—— IV of Bourbon forms a league with Philip of Spain, 182; abjures the doctrines of Calvin, 183, 270; attempted assassination of, 187, 189; re-establishes the Jesuits in France, 225; grants letters patent, 254; death of, ibid.

—— VIII of England and the Jesuits, 63, 64

Hierarchy of the Jesuits, 45, 53

Hindoos, missions of the Jesuits to the, 108, 109

Holland, Jesuits in, 453

Holy Alliance, or League, purport of the, 180; members of, ibid.

Houses connected with Jesuit Colleges, 214

—— of novitiate, 46

—— of probation, 32

—— of professed members, 408

Huguenots, persecution of the, 270, 273; massacre of, 271

Hume on “Babington’s Conspiracy,” 167

—— on the “Jesuit Conspiracies in England,” 162, 163