Religious Orders

Regular Clerics (Chierici Regolari)

• Carafa, Vincenzo Vol. III, p. 450
  CARAFA, VINCENZO. - Seventh general of the Society of Jesus, b. at Andria to M. Maddalena Carafa (v. above) on 9 May 1585, d. at Rome on 8…
• Company of Jesus (COMPAGNIA DI GESÙ) Vol. IV, p. 70
  COMPANY OF JESUS. - Religious order of Regular Clerics, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola (v.) and approved by the Holy See in 1540. Its…
• Congregation of Saint Paul (CONGREGAZIONE DI S. PAOLO) Vol. IV, p. 190
  CONGREGATION OF ST. PAUL new Congregation under the immediate jurisdiction of the Holy See. The founder, however, mitigated its external…
• Congregation of Saint Paul (Barnabites) (CONGREGAZIONE DI SAN PAOLO (BARNABITI)) Vol. IV, p. 189
  CONGREGATION OF SAINT PAUL (BARNABITES). - Founded in 1530 in Milan by St. Anthony M. Zaccaria (v.) together with Giacomo Morigia and…
• Congregation of the Clerics Regular Marian Fathers Under the Title of the Immaculate Conception (Marian Fathers) (CONGREGAZIONE DEI CHIERICI REGOLARI MARIANI SOTTO IL TITOLO DELL'IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE (MARIANI)) Vol. IV, p. 180
  CONGREGATION OF MARIAN REGULAR CLERICS UNDER THE TITLE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (MARIANI). - Religious congregation founded in 1673 by…
• Historical Archive of the Society of Jesus (ARCHIVUM HISTORICUM SOCIETATIS IESU) Vol. I, p. 1088
  HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. - A biannual periodical published in Rome by the College of Historians of the Society of Jesus…
• Laínez, Diego Vol. VII, p. 506
  LAÍNEZ, DIEGO. - Theologian, second General of the Society of Jesus, b. in 1512 at Almazán (Castile), d. January 19, 1565 in Rome. Of great…
• Mercurian, Eberhard Vol. VIII, p. 434
  MERCURIAN, EBERHARD. - Fourth General of the Society of Jesus, b. at Marcour (Belgium) in 1514, d. at Rome on 1 August 1580. A Jesuit in…
• Ministers of the Sick (Camillians, Camillini, Crucifers) (MINISTRI DEGLI INFERMI (CAMILLIANI, CAMILLINI, CROCIFERI)) Vol. VIII, p. 630
  MINISTERS OF THE SICK (Camillians, Camillini, Crucifers). - Regular clerics founded by St. Camillus de Lellis (v.) in 1586. They wear the…
• Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu Vol. VIII, p. 833
  MONUMENTA HISTORICA SOCIETATIS IESU. - A publication of documents for the history of the Society of Jesus, begun in Madrid in 1894 and…
• Regular Clerics (CHIERICI REGOLARI) Vol. III, p. 834
  REGULAR CLERICS. - These are those religious societies of clerics which, founded from the beginning of the 16th century until about the end…
• Ricci, Lorenzo Vol. X, p. 513
  RICCI, LORENZO. - Jesuit, 18th general of the Order, b. in Florence on 2 Aug. 1703, d. in Rome in Castel Sant'Angelo on 24 Nov. 1775.…
• Roothaan, Joannes Philippe Vol. X, p. 797
  ROOTHAAN, JOANNES PHILIPPE. - Twenty-first general of the Society of Jesus, b. in Amsterdam on 23 Nov. 1785, d. in Rome on 8 May 1853.…
• Somaschi Vol. XI, p. 570
  SOMASCHI. - Religious order founded for the care of orphans by the Venetian patrician St. Jerome Emiliani (or Miani [v.]) in 1528, in the…
• Spaur, Francesco Vol. XI, p. 657
  SPAUR, FRANCESCO. - Superior general of the Somaschi, from a noble Tridentine family, formerly a secular priest; having entered the…
• Theatines (TEATINI) Vol. XI, p. 1097
  THEATINES. - The first, chronologically, of the Congregations of Clerics Regular to arise in the 16th century, it was founded in Rome on 14…
• Vitelleschi, Muzio Vol. XII, p. 961
  VITELLESCHI, MUZIO. - Sixth general of the Society of Jesus, b. in Rome on 2 Dec. 1563, d. there on 9 Feb. 1645. Having entered the Order…