NOUN
- a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
How To Use Jesuit order In A Sentence
- The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
- In the June table of contents, we miscalculated the age of the Jesuit order of priests.
- Appropriately the subject represents a key event in the life of Saint Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuit order.
- No Protestant would ever name a child Ignatius, after the founder of the Jesuit order.
- The missionary Jesuit order developed a speciality in clinical depictions of torturous martyrdoms.
- He entered the Jesuit order in 1726 going to the Jesuit College in Piacenza in 1728 to teach literature.
- In 1930 the estate was taken over by the Jesuit order, which used it as a novitiate.
- After joining the Jesuit Order, he underwent rigorous training in Rome and Madrid and was named a missionary to the uncharted regions of New Spain.
