Religious Orders

• Franciscan Order — Religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi; Francis granted his followers the study of sacred Letters, and St. Anthony of Padua was the first from this family to teach them
• Louvain College — Jesuit college at Louvain; mentioned by Lapide as bearing esteem toward Van der Burch
• Order of Preachers — Catholic religious order founded by St. Dominic in 1216
• Province of Flandro-Belgica — Jesuit administrative province covering the southern Low Countries; Charles Scribani served as Provincial Superior
• Society of Jesus — Catholic religious order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1540; Cornelius a Lapide was a member