Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
The Society of Jesus and its members' role in scholarship, pastoral ministry, and education. Lapide entered the Society on 8 July 1592; taught Sacred Scripture at Louvain and then Rome. The Society established both a Novitiate and a College in Mechlin. Van der Burch praised as "a friend of our Society."
Preliminaries
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— Lapide identified as "of the Society of Jesus, formerly professor of Holy Scripture at Louvain, afterwards at Rome."
"By Reverend Father Cornelius a Lapide, of the Society of Jesus, formerly professor of Holy Scripture at Louvain, afterwards at Rome"
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THE LIFE OF CORNELIUS A LAPIDE.
— Lapide entered the Society of Jesus on 8 July 1592; taught Sacred Scripture publicly at Louvain for over twenty years before being summoned to Rome.
"As a young man he entered the Society of Jesus on 8 July in the year of salvation 1592"
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THE LIFE OF CORNELIUS A LAPIDE.
— Lapide's desire for martyrdom was "divinely implanted from his very first novitiate" in the Society.
"The most ardent desire to undergo martyrdom, divinely implanted from his very first novitiate"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch described as "a friend of our Society and of all Religious who are truly Religious."
"You are a friend of our Society and of all Religious who are truly Religious, and especially of those who live not for themselves alone but also for others, and devote their efforts to directing souls toward salvation."
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Permissions
— The Superior General Mutius Vitelleschi grants permission after review by three Jesuit theologians.
"Since three theologians of our Society, to whom this task was entrusted, have reviewed the Commentaries"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— The Society established both a Novitiate and a College in Mechlin.
"until our Society established both a Novitiate and a College in that city."