Church of The Jesuits

... gone was another lovely one, on Friday I had another very self indulgent day exploring the city, this time visiting the church of the Jesuits, not far from the central Stephansplatz and the national library.  The church, from the outside is really ...

... there was no information to be had whatsoever (apart from a pamphlet produced by the Franciscans who now own the Church, who fractiously critisised the Jesuits, for reasons that were never quite made clear) and we wondered out again soon after. We ate ...

... would get pissed off and head back to their homelands but in general it sounded like quite a harmonious set up.  The Catholic church recalled the Jesuits back to Spain in the end, as they feared they were too powerful. We also stayed in a lovely ...

... new dynasty in control in China began to force Jesuits to sign a document saying they agreed to Confucian ideas and philosophy. If the Jesuits did not sign, they were persecuted or deported. By the 19th century all most all of the Jesuits had either been ...

... a video on the history of the Jesuit missions in that part of Argentina (the province is actually called Misiones).  The Jesuits got there in the early 1600's and were able to create these communities because Guaranis were seeking protection ...

... .  The Jesuits were there to spread Christianity and "civilize" the Indians.  However, unlike most missionary projects – the Jesuits had a good approach.   The Guarani were given their own land and home to use and the Jesuits ...

... We spent about 30 minutes inside their church of San Pedro, getting a great explanation from our guide. This church was first built by the Jesuits who painted beautiful frescos all over the ceilings and walls. When the Jesuits were expelled from Peru, ...

... Mini ruins, where trees throw roots up over crumbling walls, pulling stone from stone, and gradually  effacing any memory of the Jesuits beneath blanket of succulent greenery. Nature is reclaimng the ruins, but lets make no mistake, it wa s man ...

... east side of SA. The one at Trinidad is one of the best restored and gives a good idea of the scale of the enterprise. In fact the Jesuits were so good that the King of Spain expelled them in 1767 and gave the land to secular owners. They preceded to ...

... Igacio mini) where they forcefully converted the locals. It was basically go to the missions or get put into Portuguese slaver. The Jesuits founded so many towns that to this day the region is officially called the missions. The ruins were interesting, ...

... own right. If you had been here three centuries ago, some skills in Latin would no doubt have also been very useful. The Jesuits established many missions in the upper Paraná region of present-day Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, and the area just east ...

... the Dominican order felt that they had to be ‘grand’ in order to aspire people to want to join their order compared to the Jesuits or Franciscan that didn’t work on wealth but by being ‘in tune’ and on the same level as their ...

... American masters. Two crosses further on we arrived at La Compañia de Jesus gift wrapped in scaffolding and pigeon netting. The Jesuits of Quito opened Ecuador (and the rest of the Americas) to Catholicism. This, their headquarters, defies belief ...

... back to the Mission to see the light show.  It was much better than I expected with the history between the Guarani natives and the Jesuits shown against mist from the sprinklers and along the walls of the mission.  This was our first time in ...

... by an Italian Jesuit and completed by early Japanese Christian exiles and Chinese craftsmen in 1602. It was abandoned after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1762 and a military battalion was stationed here. In 1835 a fire erupted in the kitchen of the ...

... you. On the south-east side of the Plaza de Armas is the Church of La Campania de Jesus built in the 1570's by the Jesuits on the site of Inca Huayna Capac's palace. When we attempted to tour the inside we were turned away because a wedding was ...

... ruined church of St. Paul's.     The Church of St. Paul was originally built in the 16th century for use by the Jesuits.  It later was used by the Dutch colonists as a place of worship for the Dutch Reformed Church in the 17th century ...