The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850
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...
| Published in: | KADOC studies on religion, culture and society |
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| Language: | English |
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Leuven
Leuven University Press
[2019]
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KADOC studies on religion, culture and society (24)
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Benelux countries
/ Jesuits
/ Church history studies 1773-1850
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Collection of essays
B Benelux countries B Jesuits (Benelux countries) History 18th century B Jesuits (Benelux countries) History 19th century B Jesuits B History |
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| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Bandzählung von der Website der KU Leuven (auf dem hinteren Umschlag fälschlich als Band 24 gezählt) |
| ISBN: | 9462702217 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11116/9789461663191 |