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With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus

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In With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus, twelve historians examine important visitations in the history of the Society. After a thorough investigation of the nature...
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  • 09 May 2019
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In With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus, twelve historians examine important visitations in the history of the Society. After a thorough investigation of the nature and role of the “visitor” in Jesuit rules and regulations, ten visitations of missions and provinces—from Peru in the sixteenth century, to Ireland in the seventeenth, to the Zambesi mission and Australia in the twentieth—are considered. Visitors, appointed by the superior general in Rome, surveyed the situation for fidelity to the Jesuit way of life, resolved any problems, and recommended future paths, often to the disapproval of Jesuit hosts. One contribution concerns the canonical visitation of the non-Jesuit Francis Saldanha da Gama in 1758, which resulted in the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal in 1759.
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Price: $205.00
Pages: 318
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Jesuit Studies
Publication Date: 09 May 2019
ISBN: 9789004394834
Format: Hardcover
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“This is a readable collection that convinces of the importance of the role of the Visitor, with much to interest scholars of religious history and particularly its globalisation.”
James E. Kelly, Durham University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (2020), pp. 650–651.

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., PhD (1984), is curator of the Avery, Cardinal Dulles Archives (Fordham University) and archivist of the Maryland province of the Society of Jesus. His most recent monograph is The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1598–1606: “Lest our lamp be entirely extinguished” (Brill, 2017).