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Jesus (SOCIETY OF dience to their)

SOCIETY OF dience to their superiors. A general 1899. He presented to the Metropolitan should command, and should have none above him but the Pope. Paul III. issanctioning the establishment of the order with certain restrictions, swept away three years later. In 1541 Loyola was chosen general of the order, and afterward resided generally paid $20,000; and to Williams Colat Rome. His order spread with great rapidity, and at the death of Loyola, on July 31, 1556, consisted of above 1,000 persons, with 100 houses divided into 12 provinces. The Jesuits rendered great but ultimately became unpopular with the civil government in most Roman Catholic countries.

The people thought them crafty. In order was given for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Porthe order was suppressed suppressed in France, and its property 31, 1767, similar destruction overtook it in Spain, and soon after in Spanish America, and next, after 1768, in the Two Sicilies and Parma, till at length, on July 21, 1773, the Pope issued a bull suppressing the order altogether. Austria and the other Roman Catholic States obeyed the de- , Pope Pius VII. cree. re-established it. In June, 1817, the Jesuits were expelled from Russia, and the British Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, passed in tion Act, passed in 1829, left them unwhich have since been removed.

The bill regulating religious communities, which went into force in France in 1901, greatly retheir educational work. Roman Catholic higher education in the United States is largely under the control of the Jesuits. or JESUITS' BARK, BARK, the bark of a certain species of PERUVIAN Cinchona, so called because it was first introduced into Europe by the Jesuits.