The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850
Edited by Leo Kenis and Marc Lindeijer
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VIEW Edited volume - ebook - PDFHow the Jesuits re-emerged after forty years of suppression
In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional religious life. In the Austrian Netherlands, the Jesuits were put under strict surveillance, but in the Dutch Republic they were able to continue their missionary work. It is this regional contrast and the opportunities it offered for the Order to survive that make the Low Countries an exceptional and interesting case in Jesuit history.
Just as in White Russia, former Jesuits and new Jesuits in the Low Countries prepared for the restoration of the Order, with the help of other religious, priests, and lay benefactors. In 1814, eight days before the restoration of the Society by Pope Pius VII, the novitiate near Ghent opened with eleven candidates from all over the United Netherlands. Barely twenty years later, the Order in the Low Countries – by then counting one hundred members – formed an independent Belgian Province. A separate Dutch Province followed in 1850. Obviously, the reestablishment, with new churches and new colleges, carried a heavy survival burden: in the face of their old enemies and the black legends they revived, the Jesuits had to retrieve their true identity, which had been suppressed for forty years.
Contributors: Peter van Dael, SJ (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
& Pontifical Gregorian University Rome), Pierre Antoine Fabre (École des
hautes études en sciences sociales Paris), Joep van Gennip (Tilburg School of
Catholic Theology), Michel Hermans, SJ (University of Namur), Marek Inglot, SJ
(Pontifical Gregorian University Rome), Frank Judo (lawyer Brussels), Leo Kenis
(KU Leuven) Marc Lindeijer, SJ (Bollandist Society Brussels), Jo Luyten
(KADOC-KU Leuven), Kristien Suenens (KADOC-KU Leuven), Vincent Verbrugge (historian)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
SURVIVED
The Quick Downfall and Slow Rise of the Jesuit Order in the Low Countries
SURVIVAL
The ‘Suppressions’ of the Society of Jesus in the Gallo-Belgian Province
“Contulit hos virtus, expulit invidia”
The Fate of the Jesuits of the Gallo-Belgian Province after 1773
The Jesuits of the Low Countries and the Society of Jesus in Russia
SURVIVORS
Restoration in One Country?
The Post-Concordatory Vicissitudes of Joannes Vrindts (1781-1862)
Pierre-Antoine Malou-Riga (1753-1827)
“Aptus ad gubernandum”
REVIVAL?
‘Jesuits’ as Promoters of Female Religious Congregations in Belgium (c. 1800-1870)
“A great swarm of nocturnal raptors shrieking horribly”
Jesuit Churches in the Netherlands in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
CONCLUSION
Jesuits in the Low Countries from the Modern to the Contemporary Era
Appendix
Bibliography
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 238 × 170 × 22 mm
392 pages
ISBN: 9789462702219
Publication: December 18, 2019
Series: KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 25
Languages: English
Stock item number: 132428
Marc Lindeijer,SJ is member of the Bollandist Society in Brussels. Before that, he worked in Rome for the causes of the saints of the Society of Jesus. He publishes on modern sanctity and on church history, with a focus on the Jesuits.
This volume is an extraordinarily welcome contribution. Beyond meticulous accounts of the Jesuit suppression and restoration, it adds fine-grained detail to Catholicism’s great canvas of travails—from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras into nineteenth-century conflicts between ultramontanism and liberal nationalism. All scholars of modern church history will benefit from this kaleidoscopic account. - Stephen Schloesser S.J., The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 110, Number 1, Winter 2024, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/921747
Le grand mérite de ce volume est sa précision et sa façon de prendre en compte les itinéraires individuels des centaines de personnes impliquées dans l’aventure malheureuse de la Compagnie honnie successivement par quasi tous les pouvoirs temporels et spirituels. Depuis son rétablissement, la Compagnie a toujours été prolixe dans la présentation de sa propre histoire, la bibliographie est proprement époustouflante (p. 351-378 dans ce volume) et il existe plusieurs catalogues prosopographiques très complets de ses membres. Les auteurs en ont largement profité, d’abord en établissant le catalogue nominatif des jésuites qui dans les années 1773-1830 ont eu un rapport avec les grands Pays-Bas dans le sens mentionné ci-dessus, en y vivant ou en y revenant (p. 341-349, et un index nominatif), ensuite en exploitant à fond les archives des maisons, collèges et, dans les Pays-Bas du Nord, « stations missionnaires », c’est-à-dire les églises domestiques installées dans des bâtiments privés, qui ont succédé aux anciennes paroisses supprimées sous le régime protestant.
Willem Frijhoff, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 196 | octobre-décembre 2021, mis en ligne le 01 décembre 2021, DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.64904
Paul Oberholzer, SZRKG/RSHRC/RSSRC 114 (2020) 389–462, DOI: 10.24894/2673-3641.00074
“The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850, Edited by Leo Kenis and Marc Lindeijer”, alweer een heel interessante, Engelstalige uitgave van Leuven University Press.
Michel Dutrieue, Stretto – Magazine voor kunst, geschiedenis en muziek, Maart 2020