On This Day
| 1568: John Segura and five companions set sail from Spain for Florida. (Nine Jesuits were killed in that region between 1566 and 1571.) |
| 1599: At Diest in Flanders, the birth of St. John Berchmans. |
| 1820: In Russia, an imperial ukase of Czar Alexander I banished all Jesuits from the Empire where the Society had survived from 1773 until the restoration in 1814. |
In Memoriam
| Name | Year |
| Robert L. Murphy | 1996 |
| Philip G. Malone | 1999 |
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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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