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Lachaise, Père, 270
Lacroix on the “Political Creed” of the Jesuits, 193
Lainez, a companion of Loyola, 23; accompanies him to Rome, 26; erects a convent in Venice, 62; appointed Vicar-General, 133, 136; attends the Congress of Poissy, 143; assembles the Council of Trent, ibid.; character and death of, 144; instigates the persecution of the Waldenses, 206; his successor, 145
Lambertini, 338
Lavallette, Father, 38; character of, 344, 345
Laws enacted in England against the Jesuits, 167, 292
—— issued in France against the Jesuits, 189
League, or “Holy Union,” 179; chief of, elected, 180; object of the, ibid.; termination of the, 184; part taken by the Jesuits in, 185
Lefevre, a Companion of the Order, 23; one of its founders, 28; mission of, to Spain, 58
Legends of Loyola, 22 _n._, 23 _n._
Leghorn, Jesuits repulsed from, 358; becomes an Austrian port, 477
Lejay, mission of, to Germany, 59
Leo X, character of, 7
Leopold, Duke of Tuscany, 365; admits the Jesuits, 486
Lepanto, battle of, 148
Letellier, 272, 273
Lettre de cachet, 272 _n._
Liberals, Jesuits opposed to, 438; hatred of Pope Pius IX to, 474
Lisbon, the seat of Jesuit commerce, 277; great earthquake in, 334
Literature, importance of, 222
Liverpool, Jesuits established at, 459
Lombardy, Jesuits in, 487
Loyola, Ignatius, biography of, 10, 21, 23; writings of, 14-17, 30 _n._; visions of, 15; pilgrimage of, 21; his attempts at proselytism, 22; disciples of, 24, 28; vows of, 24, 25; elected First General of the Order, 57; institutions founded by, 59; character of, 90; his correspondence with the Sovereigns of Europe, 93; illness and death of, 93, 94; canonized as a saint, 262; statue of, 367; state of the Society at his death, 408; his chief aim, 493
Louis XIII, Jesuit influence under, 266
—— XIV, confessors of, 267, 272; assumes the Government, 269; marries Madame de Maintenon, 272
—— XV supports the Jesuits, 330; character of, 346
—— Napoleon, see “Napoleon”
Louvain, Jesuit college first founded at, 62
Lucerne invaded by the Jesuits, 458
Luther, excommunication of, 8; doctrines of, 232
Luynes, Cardinal, 346