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Title The survival of the Jesuits in the low countries, 1773-1850 / edited by Leo Kenis, Marc Lindeijer
Published Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (389 pages)
Series KADOC studies on religion, culture, & society [25]
KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 25.
Contents The quick downfall and slow rise of the Jesuit order in the Low Countries / Marc Lindeijer, SJ, Jo Luyten, Kristien Suenens -- The "suppressions" of the Society of Jesus in the Gallo-Belgian Province / Michel Hermans, SJ -- "Contulit hos virtus, expulit invidia" : the suppression of the Jesuits of the Flemish-Belgian Province / Joep van Gennip -- The fate of the Jesuits of the Gallo-Belgian Province after 1773 / Michel Hermans, SJ -- The Jesuits of the Low Countries and the Society of Jesus in Russia / Marek Inglot, SJ -- Restoration in one country? : the strange history of Balthazar de Villegas' Mémoire sur le rétablissement des Jésuites / Frank Judo -- The post-Concordatory vicissitudes of Joannes Vrindts (1781-1862) : priest in search of an identity, Jesuit at heart / Jo Luyten -- Pierre-Antoine Malou-Riga (1753-1827) : a part-time Jesuit? / Vincent Verbrugge -- "Aptus ad gubernandum" : the formation of Fr Jan Roothaan in the principles and practices of good governance of the restored Society of Jesus (1823-1829) / Marc Lindeijer, SJ -- "Jesuits" as promoters of female religious congregations in Belgium (c. 1800-1870) : continuity or discontinuity? / Jo Luyten, Kristien Suenens -- "A great swarm of nocturnal raptors shrieking horribly" : negative images of the Jesuits in the Netherlands between the restoration of the Order and the establishment of the Dutch Jesuit province, 1814-1850 / Joep van Gennip -- Jesuit churches in the Netherlands in the first half of the nineteenth century / Peter van Dael, SJ -- Conclusion : Jesuits in the Low Countries from the modern to the contemporary era : resources for a new history / Pierre-Antoine Fabre -- Appendix : Catalogue of Jesuits in and from the Low Countries, 1773-1830
Summary In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional religious life. In the Austrian Netherlands, the Jesuits were put under strict surveillance, but in the Dutch Republic they were able to continue their missionary work. It is this regional contrast and the opportunities it offered for the Order to survive that make the Low Countries an exceptional and interesting case in Jesuit history.00Just as in White Russia, former Jesuits and new Jesuits in the Low Countries prepared for the restoration of the Order, with the help of other religious, priests, and lay benefactors. In 1814, eight days before the restoration of the Society by Pope Pius VII, the novitiate near Ghent opened with eleven candidates from all over the United Netherlands. Barely twenty years later, the Order in the Low Countries - by then counting one hundred members - formed an independent Belgian Province. A separate Dutch Province followed in 1850. Obviously, the reestablishment, with new churches and new colleges, carried a heavy survival burden: in the face of their old enemies and the black legends they revived, the Jesuits had to retrieve their true identity, which had been suppressed for forty years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2020)
Subject Jesuits -- Benelux countries -- History -- 18th century
Jesuits -- Benelux countries -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Subject Benelux countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kenis, Leo, 1953- editor.
Lindeijer, Marc, 1966- editor.
ISBN 9789461663191
9461663196