Ecclaesiae of September 1540, was one of many new religious orders of men and women

which appeared during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All of these new orders

were both fruit and expression of that renewal of European Catholicism commonly known

today as the Catholic Reformation. The Jesuits, however, were the most renowned of

these new religions. This new religion was the vision of a man named Ignatius of Loyola,

who simply wanted to pursue a faith that would help more needy people. In order to

achieve this, he eventually set up colleges where his followers could train and educate

themselves. However, like all new things, this religion and everyone involved had strong

The Jesuits were the largest of the new orders of the Catholic Reformation. They

were the most clerical and highly organized. They were the most Roman - for their

Basque founder, Ignatius Loyola, committed his Company, as he usually called it, to the

service of the papacy and made Rome his headquarters. He was the first founder of a

major order to do so. Jesuits were also the most international of the religions. Though

international in another sense: they were to be more widely distributed around the world

orders began to rival them, especially in schooling.

rather used as a stop-gap. At his death, however, out of a total membership of over 1000

on the floor, and always accompanied by Ignatius's famous 'composition of place', that is,

of French Catholicism during the seventeenth century. But they never really flourished in

they went. That, at any rate, is what they themselves usually claimed. But they were

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