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Surrogate Fathers: The Lazarists as Jesuit Successors in the Eighteenth Century, 1759–1814

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2017

SEÁN A. SMITH
SEÁN A. SMITH*
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School of History, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; e-mail sean.smith@ucd.ie
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Abstract

From 1759 to 1773 rulers throughout Europe deemed the Society of Jesus highly dangerous and began moving against it. This article, however, rather than focussing on Jesuit failings, uncovers an alternative story of the popularity enjoyed by the Lazarists, appointed to be the Jesuits’ successors in many important locations. The Lazarists’ ethos and behaviour provided attractive contrasts to the Jesuits, first winning the patronage of European elites in the pre-suppression era. Yet replacing the Jesuits was tricky, imposing novel demands on the Lazarists’ resources. More ominously, the forces which brought down the Jesuits had not gone into full slumber, seriously endangering the Lazarist succession.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 57 - 85
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70 ‘je n'en recherche aucun, et que, quand on m'en propose, je me défends autant qu'il m'est possible; mais quelquefois les instances sont si vives, et les personnes qui les font sont si pieuses et si respectables, que je crains, en refusant, de m'opposer aux desseins que la Providence a sur nous’: RC ii. 126.

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80 ‘Livro para servir aos assentos dos Exercicios dos Ordenandos e que teve principio em Dezembro de 1779 que foi o tempo em que se admittirão os primeiros depois que a Congregação tomou posse deste Collegio da Purificação de Evora’: ANTT, PT/TT/AC/M026.03.

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86 ‘la belle et vaste maison de Saint-André, sur le mont Esquilin; l'autre à Bologne, où … Son Éminence Mgr le cardinal Malvezzi nous a mis en possession d'une magnifique habitation, [94] bien meublée, et fournie de provisions abondantes’: RC ii. 93–4.

87 ‘Le premier est que le Souverain Pontife, de son propre mouvement et sans aucune sollicitation de notre part, a fait remettre à nos confrères de la maison de Saint-André de Rome toute l'argenterie qui avait été enlevée de l'église lors de l'extinction de la société des Jésuites’: RC ii. 117.

88 ‘mit allen dazu gehörigen Kirchen, Gebäuden, Gütern, Renten, Gefällen, Kapitalien, Zinsen, Kirchengerätschaften, vorrätigen Mobilien, Büchern, Baarschaften, Weinen, Früchten und Lasten’: GLAK. Pfälzer Generalia, 77, 6262, ‘Schenkung’.

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104 A few Jesuits became Lazarists in the process. This happened in the Palatinate (Bros Bach and Muskino) and in the Levant (Fr Virot in Damascus). My thanks to the Revd Dr John Rybolt cm for supplying me with this information.

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111 ‘les États les mieux affermis sont menacés d'une subversion totale par cet esprit d'une liberté fanatique qui gagne de toutes parts; où l'Église fait des pertes immenses par les attaques redoublées de l'erreur, par les vues d'une fausse politique, et surtout par les fureurs de l'impiété qui étend ses ravages et multiplie ses partisans’: RC ii. 257.

112 RC ii. 239.  See also Joseph Guichard cm, ‘La Congrégation et la Révolution’, unpublished manuscript, ACMP.

113 ‘Nos maisons du Levant soutiennent avec bien des difficultés depuis la perte de leurs revenus de France. Le peu qu'elles peuvent posséder en Turquie est confié à des économes nommés par le gouvernement; je ne m'étonnerais point que ces messieurs n'en fussent complètement dépouillés par les menées des ministres de la révolution française’: RC ii. 252, 1 Jan. 1795.

114 ‘empêcher que les agents de la France ne s'emparent de nos maisons et de nos églises’: RC ii. 256.

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119 ‘sarebbe la consolazione di tutti i buoni, e un efficace riparo a tanti disordini’: Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani to Mons. Giovanelli, patriarch of Venice, 31 Dec. 1796, ibid. fo. 63r.

120 ‘si un jour ladite Societe des Jesuites dût … être rétablie, elle la remettroit dans la possession de leurs bien et dans l'acquit des fonctions’: ‘Mémoire analytique de l'esprit des fonctions’, 1781, fo.1.

121 ‘wenn Künste und Wissenschaften in Abnahme gerathen, und wenn die Bildung des wichtigsten Standes im Lande (der Geistlichkeit) vernachlässiget wird’: Johannes Arnold Mathy, Die französischen Pädagogen in Deutschland oder die Geschichte des Lazarismus in der Pfalz, Bethania 1793, pp. xiii–xiv.

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