Pre-suppression Jesuit activity in the British Isles and Ireland
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Pre-suppression Jesuit activity in the British Isles and Ireland
（Brill research perspectives in Jesuit studies / editor, Robert A. Maryks）
Brill, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-115)
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Description
The British Isles and Ireland tested the self-proclaimed adaptability and flexibility of the new Society of Jesus. A mission to Ireland highlighted the complexities and ended in failure in the early 1580s, not to be revived until 1598. The fabled Jesuit mission to England in 1580 conceived in wistful optimism was baptized with blood with the execution of Edmund Campion in 1581 and the consequent political manoeuveres of Robert Persons. The Scottish mission began in December 1581. The three missions remained distinct in the pre-suppression period despite an occasional proposal for integration. The English mission was the largest, the bloodiest, the most controversial, and the only one to progress to full provincial status. The government tried to suppress it; the Benedictines tried to complement it; the vicars-apostolic tried to control it; and foreign Jesuits tried to recognize it. Nonetheless, the English province forged a corporate identity that even withstood the suppression.
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Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland
Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
Abstract
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1 Initial Contact
2 Jesuit Nuncios
3 Vocations to the Society
4 Permanent Missions in the Sixteenth Century
5 The Early Stuarts and Interregnum
6 Restoration and the Later Stuarts
7 The Eighteenth Century
8 Suppression
9 Conclusion
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