Just a word, if I may, about the Jesuits:
I was fascinated by what was called "The Jesuit Reductions" About a project that lasted for over 150 years in the jungles of what was then just called Paraguay. Today that area has the names of 5 different countries.
The book "Black Robes in Paraguay" can still be found on amazon. It reads like a novel. It covers the very interesting project by the Jesuits from beginning to end.
The movie "The Mission" with Robert De Niro was pretty good, and after reading the book, I think it gave a fair rendition of the history. For Hollywood that is.
The "Jesuit Reduction" project helped destroy the Jesuit order. In the end they were thrown out of all Spain, and its territories, then disbanded by the Pope in 1767 and many were hunted down and killed. Then in 1814 a "new and improved" Jesuit order was restored by the Pope. I can't comment on them.
Now every time I hear Jesuit I think of the reduction project in Paraguay and think perhaps that was the best adaption a Christian group could have done for its fellow man.
I was fascinated by what was called "The Jesuit Reductions" About a project that lasted for over 150 years in the jungles of what was then just called Paraguay. Today that area has the names of 5 different countries.
The book "Black Robes in Paraguay" can still be found on amazon. It reads like a novel. It covers the very interesting project by the Jesuits from beginning to end.
The movie "The Mission" with Robert De Niro was pretty good, and after reading the book, I think it gave a fair rendition of the history. For Hollywood that is.
The "Jesuit Reduction" project helped destroy the Jesuit order. In the end they were thrown out of all Spain, and its territories, then disbanded by the Pope in 1767 and many were hunted down and killed. Then in 1814 a "new and improved" Jesuit order was restored by the Pope. I can't comment on them.
Now every time I hear Jesuit I think of the reduction project in Paraguay and think perhaps that was the best adaption a Christian group could have done for its fellow man.
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