5 Apr 1682: ex-#Jesuit convert Andrew Sall buried at #Oxmantown #Dublin #otd Sall worked on William Bedell's (d.1642) #Gaelic #Bible for Robert Boyle & Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (eebo)

#Books #CurrentlyReading Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. I’ve been meaning to read this book for years and am finally getting around to it. I’m astounded that this book was published 40 years ago, long before smartphones or even the Internet. Postman postulates that television is the main culprit for dumbing down society. And it’s just getting worse, of course. My contention, based on my own observation, is that critical thinking is nearly extinct. I’m eternally grateful for the education I received in #Jesuit institutions in high school and college. It gave me a good foundation of critical thinking that has served me very well. I would highly recommend reading this book.

28 Mar 1606: Trial of Henry Garnett #Jesuit for allegedly instigating Gunpowder Plot starts #otd. Coke, prosecuting says of him: ‘superior to all his predecessors in Devilish treason, a Doctor of Dissimulation’. Executed on 3 May.

28 Mar 1679: St David Lewis #Welsh #Jesuit from Abergavenny condemned #otd under the statute 27 Eliz I, executed at #Usk 27 Aug 1679 (BM)

25 Mar 1538: b. Christopher Clavius #Jesuit astronomer, defender of the Gregorian calendar, but also a geocentrist #otd

3 Mar 1630: Sir William Stanley, soldier, famous #English #Catholic exile buried in a public funeral at the #Jesuit church in #Mechelen #otd He and his mostly #Irish troops handed Deventer to the #Spanish in 1587.

The exiled Ulster Earls met him in 1608.

2 Mar 1606: St Nicholas Owen, carpenter, #Jesuit brother dies under torture, Tower of #London (LLew) #otd The official line was that he had 'slit his own stomach'

26 Feb 1616: The #Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine orders Galileo #otd not to maintain the heliocentric theory. Neither in speech nor in writing.

21 Feb 1595 : St. Robert Southwell #Jesuit & #poet, executed at Tyburn #otd (BM/eebo)

21 Feb 1606: d. Richard Field of Corduff, #Blanchardstown #Dublin, superior of the #Jesuit mission in #Ireland #otd

20 Feb 1610: beatification ceremony for Ignatius Loyola, founder of the #Jesuit order attended by #Dublin #Jesuit, Henry Fitzsimon #otd (BM)

19 Feb 1598: Jasper Heywood, John Donne's #Jesuit uncle dies in #Naples #otd (eebo/NPG) Heywood had been banished from #England following imprisonment & torture in the Tower of #London

A #Jesuit-led effort for descendants of its #formerslaves seeks to atone for '#sinful' past

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/16/jesuit-slavery-descendants-restorative-justice/78000468007/

8 Feb 1584: Jasper Heywood #Jesuit transferred to the Tower of #London #otd & tortured. His nephew John Donne #poet was part of a family group that visited him there later

https://www.europesays.com/1806579/ Police in Spain investigating after Mass. priest dies in coastal city #BostonCollegeHigh #CoastalCity #death #FR #groß #institution #investigation #Jesuit #JesuitsUsa #Jesus #malaga #Mass.Priest #massachusetts #police #priest #Rev.RichardGross #school #society #spain #SpanishNewspaper #statement #UsaEastProvince #wcvb

25 Jan 1554: foundation of the #Jesuit Colégio de São Paulo de Piratininga #otd around which would grow the city of São Paulo #Brazil (The Photographer)

25 Jan 1540: b. St. Edmund Campion future #Jesuit #martyr & scholar #otd in #London, the son of a bookseller at Paternoster Row, in the shadow of St Paul’s. Executed at Tyburn, 1 Dec 1581. A brilliant intellect.

21 Jan 1585: John Donne's uncle Jasper Heywood, #Jesuit, having been indicted for treason (NPG/eebo) moved to the Tower and then subjected to torture is deported to #France #otd as one of a group of 18 Catholics

20 Jan 1561: David Woulfe #Jesuit Papal Commissary arrives at #Cork #otd & goes straight into hiding as he heard his arrest had been ordered. Soon made his way to his native #Limerick. Woulfe was a key agent of counter-reformation in #Ireland.

20 Jan 1606: Search, in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot discovery, for Henry Garnett #Jesuit begins #otd