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NOTABLE JESUITS

BY RORY CHURCH
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St. José de Anchieta


Spanish Jesuit, also a famous scholar, poet, and artist

One of the founders of the national literature of Brazil

Converted over 1,000,000 American Indians

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Matteo Ricci

Italian Jesuit missionary, taught about Christianity in Asia

Wrote several books in Chinese and studied the culture of China

Met Li Zhizao, Xu Guangqi, and Yang Tingyun who were known as the “Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism”

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St. Peter Claver

Spanish Jesuit who baptized around 300,000 slaves

Hated the transatlantic slave trade and brought food/medicine to plantations

On plantation visits, he was known for sleeping in the slave’s quarters, refusing the owner’s hospitality

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Pedro Arrupe

Elected as the superior general of the Society of Jesus in 1956

Missionary to Japan and was accused of being a spy after Pearl Harbor

Survived the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and treated 200 others using previous medical experience

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Ignacio Ellacuría

Missionary in El Salvador, joined the Jesuits in 1947

Received death threats but continued preaching, was murdered by an elite army unit in 1989

In 1985 he helped mediate the release of the kidnapped daughter of President José Napoleon Duarte

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These notable Jesuits were truly and deeply committed to their faith and set a good example for all of us.

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