The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-16
THE JEsUITs' ANNIVERSARY.
Celebration Recalls Interesting His.
toricaI Events.

August ), 1905, was the one hundredth
anniversary of the restoration of the
Jesuit Order in this country. The an
niversary recalls an interesting his
torical event.
On August IS, 1906, little band Of
survivors of the Jesuit Order renewed
their vows, at the manor house in
Maryland, that served as q head
quarters, and began anew the life of
the society in the United States. a
short time before, on June q, 1905,
Bishop Carroll, by virtue OF a, letter
from Father Gruber, General of the
Jesuits, who had, by the patronage of
the Empress Catherine, survived in
Russia, appointed Father Robert Molly
neuX superior of the restored Society
of Jesus in the United States.
When the Jesuits were suppressed,
in 1775, by Pope Clement XIV, neither
Frederick the Great of Prussia nor the
Empress Catherine Of Russia would
permit the brief to be published within
their dominions, and insisted on the
Jesuits then and there retaining their
organizations. From this source the
society took new life, and a bull of
Pope Plus VII. on March 6, 1901, fully
re-established it in the Russian en-
pire.
There were in the United States
fourteen surviving members of the so
ciety who kept together in Maryland
and Pennsylvania, preserving intact
the property formerly belonging TO the
society. Under the Inspiration and
leadership of Bishop Carroll Of Balti-
more and, his coadjutor, Bishop Neale,
who were themselves ex-members,
these survivors applied for readmission
into the ranks, when they heard of the
restoration of the society in Russia.
On May %, 1858, they wrote this re-
quest formally to the general in Rus
sia, Father Gabriel Giruber. It took so
long then for letters to pass between
the two countries that it was not until
March u, 1904, that Father Gruber
wrote back q favorable answer from
st. Petersburg.
In accordance with this, Bishop Car
roll and Bishop Neale, who had thought
also of resigning their mitres and re-
entering the ranks with their former
associates. summoned them in confer
ence at st. Thomas manor Maryland.
Fathers John Bolton, Charles Sewall,
Sylvester Boarman. Charles Neale,
Baker Brooke and Robert Molyneux
responded. and expressed their desire
to unite with the society.
BY the authority given him by the
general, Bishop Carroll then, on June
q, 1895, appointed Father Robert
MolyneuX provincial Of the society in
the United States. Father MolyneuX
was born in England in 1888, and, while
a professor at st. Omer's college, il:
Bruges, Bishop Carroll had been one of
his pupils. He was pastor Of st.
Joseph's, Philadelphia, during the
revolutionary war. The Jesuit body in
Maryland, which had commenced with
the two cbaplains on the Ark and the
Dove, now began a new life, after an
extinction Of about thirty years. To
aid the new community, the general
sent over five priests from Europe,
among them the famous Anthony
kohlmann, who had so much 10 90 with
the establishment of the church in
New York.
According to the latest available sta
tisttcs, there are now in the United
States 1906 Jesuits, divided up in the
different orders as follows: New York.
656 Missouri, 59S; German contingent,
29S; New Orleans, 270; California, 154
Rocky mountain missions, 157; New
Mexico, 95; Alaska, 90 The society
has twenty-one colleges. with prob
ably 10000 students attending in vari-
Gus sections OF the country, and more
than that number of beautiful churches
These figures represent something Of
the natural and religious progress the
society has made in the century lust
closing since the little band OF sur
Tivors met at st. Thomas manor in
1906. In all the world there are now
$4,000 Jesuits.