When Jesuits Were Giants - Louis-Marie Ruellan, S.J. (1846-1885) And Contemporaries

When Jesuits Were Giants Louis-Marie Ruellan, S.J. (1846-1885) And Contemporaries
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Author: Format: ISBN: H x W: Manufacturer: Date: Pages:	Fr. Cornelius Buckley, S.J. Hard Cover 0-89870-703-x 9 1/4" (23.4 cm) x 6 1/4" (15.8 cm) Ignatius Press 1999 399

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Fr. Cornelius Buckley, S.J.

No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits , loved and honored by their friends, hated and feared by enemies, were a force to be reckoned with. Everything they did, they seem to have done with elan. Scholars, missionaries, educators, adventurers, social innovators - they were Renaissance men, giants. This is a biography that chronicles the life and times of just such a man, Louis-Marie Ruellan, who began his life as a romantic, pampered, bourgeois Breton who ended up a selfless servant of God. Ruellan had entered the Jesuits in 1870, just in time to serve with them in the Franco-Prussian War. After the war, he was exiled with them to England in 1880, and finally came to the United States in 1883 to work among the Salish Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Among other things, Ruellan ended up as a founder of Gonzaga University.

For a reason that can only be described as bizarre, yet providential, Ruellan's untimely - and mysterious death in 1885 has had a lasting effect on the subsequent history of the Catholic Church in the Northwest, Alaska, and California. The author briefly depicts the colorful careers of a number of Ruellan's fellow novices and French confreres, as well some New York and Pennsylvania Jesuits he met on his way to the Oregon Territory. Through Ruellan's extensive correspondence, much of which is contained in the book, the author introduces the reader to miners lured to the Northwest by gold, as well as to the Indians, homesteaders, railroad laborers, farmers, and the men and women who gave the American frontier such a magical aura.

Fr. Cornelius Buckley, S.J., is a well-respected Jesuit historian who taught at the University of San Francisco for over twenty-five years. He is the author of several other books including Nicholas Point, S.J.: His Life and Northwest Indian Chronicles, and Your Word, O Lord, a book of meditations. He is also the translator of A Do-It-At-Home Retreat and the best-selling biography, Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Saint.

St. Ignatius Loyola

Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 07/31
Tridentine Calendar - 07/31

Patron Of: Jesuits, Retreats

Profile
    Spanish nobility. Youngest of twelve children. Page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Military education. Soldier, entering the army in 1517, and serving in several campaigns. Wounded in the leg by a cannonball at the siege of Pampeluna on 20 May 1521, an injury that left him partially crippled for life. During his recuperation the only books he had access to were The Golden Legend, a collection of lives of the saints, and the Life of Christ by Ludolph the Carthusian. These books, and the time spent in contemplation, changed him.

    On his recovery he took a vow of chastity, hung his sword before the altar of the Virgin of Montserrat, and donned a pilgrim's robes. Lived in a cave from 1522 to 1523, contemplating the way to live a Christian life. Pilgrim to Rome and the Holy Land in 1523, where he worked to convert Muslims. In 1528 he began studying theology in Barcelona, Alcala, and Paris, receiving his degree on 14 March 1534. His meditations, prayers, visions and insights led to forming the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus on 15 August 1534; it received papal approval in 1541. Friend of James Lainez, Alonso Salmerón, Nicholas Bobadilla, Simón Rodriguez, Blessed Peter Faber, and Saint Francis Xavier, the group that formed the core of the new Society. He never used the term Jesuit, which was coined as an insult by his opponents; the Society today uses the term with pride. He traveled Europe and the Holy Lands, then settled in Rome to direct the Jesuits. His health suffered in later years, and he was nearly blind at death.

    The Jesuits today have over 500 universities and colleges, 30,000 members, and teach over 200,000 students each year.

Born
    1491 at Loyola, Guipuzcoa, Spain as Inigo Lopez de Loyola

Died
    of fever on 31 July 1556 at Rome, Italy

Beatified
    27 July 1609 by Pope Paul V

Canonized
    12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV

All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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