On This Day
| 1535: At Paris St. Ignatius received the Master of Arts degree (after having received the Licentiate the year before) with the right to be called "Master Ignatius," as he was thenceforth regularly addressed inside and outside the Society. |
| 1800: At Venice, during the continuing course of the French Revolution, the election of Pope Pius VII (Cardinal Chiaramonti), a Benedictine, who in 1814 restored the Society throughout the world. |
| 1920: The Missouri Province reported to Fr. General Ledochowski that it was sending six men to work in Patna, India. In 1928 the Patna area was turned over to the newly-formed Chicago Province. |
In Memoriam
| Name | Year |
| Stephen R. Krieger | 1979 |
| Raymond J. Strange | 1981 |
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Crossing the Divide, Jesuits on the American Frontier
Friends of the Missouri Province attended a special reception for the opening of the exhibit “Crossing the Divide, Jesuits on the American Frontier” Feb. 26 at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art. Fr. Robert Weiss (left) with Kathleen Potts and Diane Benz. For more information, see the news story. |
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News
March 08, 2010
Missouri Jesuit invited to give advice to Father General
Brother William Rehg has been invited to be part of a select “reflection commission” that Father General Adolfo Nicolás has named to help him write a letter to the whole Society of Jesus later this year on the theme of the priestly character of the Society of Jesus. The commission will meet March 23-26 at the Curia Generalizia in Rome.
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March 04, 2010
Chilean Jesuits respond to the earthquake
As the enormity of the destruction that Chile suffered in last week's 8.8 earthquake becomes clearer, news about the disaster's impact on Jesuits in Chile has become available. There were no Jesuit deaths or injuries and to date there is no news of Jesuit family members, close colleagues or students who have died, but practically all of the Jesuit houses and schools have suffered some damage.
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March 02, 2010
Jesuit Partners Preview Exhibit
St. Louis friends of the Jesuits enjoyed a special reception for the opening of an exhibit of drawings, artifacts and rare books that document the new world Jesuit missionaries entered when they crossed cultural, linguistic and religious divides in the 1840s.
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