Chapter VI

1548-56.

THE FIRST OPPOSITION TO THE ORDER, AND DEATH OF LOYOLA.

Charles V.—His Interim—He banishes Bobadilla, who opposes
it—Cano, a Dominican Friar—His Opposition to the Jesuits—He
is made Bishop of the Canaries—He renounces his Bishopric to
return to Europe—His Prediction concerning the Society—The
Archbishop of Toledo lays an Interdict on the College of
the Jesuits—Disturbance in Saragossa to prevent the Jesuits
from opening their Chapel—The Jesuits in Portugal—Their
Idleness and Debauchery—Recall of the Provincial Rodriguez—New
Superiors—Stratagem to reduce the Members to their Duty—The
Jesuits in France—Du Prat, Bishop of Clermont, their
Protector—Henry II., at the recommendation of Cardinal Guise,
wants to Establish the Jesuits in France—The Parliament refuses
to Register the Ordinances—Their Establishment opposed by
the Sorbonne—Also by De Bellay, Archbishop of Paris—Reasons
adduced by them for their Opposition—The Jesuits obliged to
leave Paris—Accused at Rome of Heresy—Remarkable unanimity of
the different Nations in opposing the Establishment of the
Order—The Jesuits conquer all Opposition—The Order Established
in direct Opposition to the Reformed Religion—Character of
Loyola—His Correspondence with the different Sovereigns—His
Illness and Death, 1556—Partiality of Macaulay, Taylor,
Stephen, and others, for Loyola and the Jesuits—Reason of this
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