Western Civilization I / Unit 15 WC1 1419 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Loyola and the Jesuits: Soldiers, Schools, Missions
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The idea
Ignatius of Loyola, a wounded Spanish knight, founded the Jesuits in fifteen forty, responsible to the pope alone: preachers, royal advisers, and teachers of the anchor's two hundred fifty thousand students by sixteen hundred. Missions reached Japan in fifteen forty-nine, China under Ricci from fifteen eighty-two.
In practice
The Spiritual Exercises; free, selective schools.
Where people slip
The anchor's fifteen fifty-two for China is Xavier's death.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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