Pupils in the Thirty Years War--Caraffa; Piccolomini; Gottifredi--Mary Ward--Alleged decline of the Society-- John Paul Oliva--Jesuits in the Courts of Kings--John Casimir--English Persecutions. Luzancy and Titus Oates-- Jesuit Cardinals--Gallicanism in France--Maimbourg--Dez-- Troubles in Holland. De Noyelle and Innocent XI-- Attempted Schism in France--González and Probabilism--Don Pedro of Portugal--New assaults of Jansenists-- Administration of Retz--Election of Ricci--The Coming Storm 387-423
State of the Society--The Seven Years War--Political Changes--Rulers of Spain, Portugal, Naples, France and Austria--Febronius--Sentiments of the Hierarchy--Popes Benedict XIV; Clement XIII; Clement XIV 424-441
Early life--Ambitions--Portuguese Missions--Seizure of the Spanish Reductions. Expulsion of the Missionaries-- End of the Missions in Brazil--War against the Society in Portugal--The Jesuit Republic--Cardinal Saldanha--Seizure of Churches and Colleges--The Assassination Plot--The Prisons--Exiles--Execution of Malagrida 442-477
The French Method--Purpose of the Enemy--Preliminary Accusations--Voltaire's testimony--La Vallette--La Chalotais--Seizure of Property--Auto da fé of the Works of Lessius, Suárez, Valentia, etc.--Appeal of the French Episcopacy--Christophe de Beaumont--Demand for a French Vicar--"Sint ut sunt aut non sint"--Protest of Clement XIII--Action of Father La Croix and the Jesuits of Paris-- Louis XV signs the Act of Suppression--Occupations of dispersed Jesuits--Undisturbed in Canada--Expelled from Louisiana--Choiseul's Colonization of Guiana 478-503
The Bourbon Kings of Spain--Character of Charles III-- Spanish Ministries--O'Reilly--The Hat and Cloak Riot-- Cowardice of Charles--Tricking the monarch--The Decree of Suppression--Grief of the Pope--His death--Disapproval in France by the Encyclopedists--The Royal Secret-- Simultaneousness of the Suppression--Wanderings of the Exiles--Pignatelli--Expulsion by Tanucci 504-529
Ganganelli--Political plotting at the Election--Bernis, Aranda, Aubeterre--The Zelanti--Election of Clement XIV-- Renewal of Jesuit Privileges by the new Pope--Demand of the Bourbons for a universal Suppression--The Three Years' Struggle--Fanaticism of Charles III--Menaces of Schism--Moñino--Maria Theresa--Spoliations in Italy-- Signing the Brief--Imprisonment of Father Ricci and the Assistants--Silence and Submission of the Jesuits to the Pope's Decree 530-554