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t. e. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( / ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju -/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; [2] Latin: Iesuitae ), [3] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 by ...
During the Salvadoran Civil War, on 16 November 1989, Salvadoran Army soldiers killed six Jesuits and two others, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at their residence on the campus of Central American University (known as UCA El Salvador) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Polaroid photos of the Jesuits' bullet-riddled bodies were on display in the ...
e. The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní were a type of settlement for the Guaraní people ("Indians" or "Indios") in an area straddling the borders of present-day Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (the triple frontier ). The missions were established by the Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church early in the 17th century and ended in the late 18th ...
Adolfo Nicolás. Adolfo Nicolás Pachón SJ (29 April 1936 – 20 May 2020) was a Spanish Jesuit priest of the Catholic Church. He was the 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. Before being elected Superior General, he worked primarily in Japan; he taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and then headed ...
Style. Neocolonial, Neoclassical. Completed. 1638. The Basilica and Convent of Saint Peter ( Spanish: Basílica y convento de San Pedro ), formerly known as Basilica of Saint Paul ( Spanish: Basílica de San Pablo de Lima) after the school of the same name, [1] is a Catholic church located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru .
Church of San Ildefonso, Toledo. Coordinates: 39.8581°N 4.0261°W. Facade of the Iglesia de San Ildefonso. The Church of San Ildefonso ( Spanish: Iglesia de San Ildefonso) is a Baroque style church located in the historic center of the city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is also known as the Jesuit church and is consecrated to ...
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The Church of the Jesuit College ( Portuguese: Igreja do Colégio dos Jesuítas de Ponta Delgada ), is a church in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, in the civil parish of São Sebastião, part of the historic centre of regional centre. It was also known as the Church of All Saints ( Portuguese: Igreja de Todos-os-Santos ), when the temple was ...