![]() ![]() Pignatelli and his brother made their way to Bologna and lived in retirement, not functioning publicly as priests. Clement XIV, of happy memory, suppressed the Society in 1773. Pignatelli somehow got the 600 or more provisions and work until France took over Corsica and they were driven out again. ![]() They and Jesuits from Aragon fled to Corsica. For example, the Marquis de Pombal put all the Jesuits, with only the clothes on their backs, into 13 ships and sent them to Civitavecchia the port in the Papal States, as a “gift” to Pope Clement XIII, who refused to admit them. an effort on the part of some monarchs, etc., to suppress the Jesuits and expel them from their territories. There had been for sometime in the 18th c. Joseph Pignatelli (+1811) is considered the second founder of the Jesuits after their suppression. Bring down some one in a very high place in the Church and massive damage is done. The Enemy is going to attack high so as to confuse and corrupt many more. The Enemy is very good at being an enemy. Think about what certain Jesuits are after. Think about what German and Flemish cardinals and bishops are pushing today. Why shouldn’t Scipio’s (member) get what it wants too, it’s own man in the College of Cardinals.” Everyone wants his own man to be made a cardinal. Spain campaigns for her candidates, France for hers. Talk about reactions or a consistory list!Īt the time, the “talking statue” Pasquino (there are a few statues around Rome that talk to each other and to the people through the papers people stick on them… they were “frank”), said of the elevation of Stefano to the sacred purple, that “No one should be surprised. ![]() Scipio somehow got Paul to make Stefano a cardinal. He was a “friend” of the nephew of Paul V, Scipio Card. Although some says it was from envy that lies were told about him, it was said of Pignatelli that his vices were so numerous that not even St. Pignatelli (+1623), son of a Neapolitan pottery maker, who had a spectacularly hideous reputation while alive as a committer of sins that cry to heaven. However, the whole nave is blocked off, so I couldn’t explore for the funerary monument of Stefano Card. The first church was Santa Maria sopra Minerva. I was on the hunt for Pignatelli’s tombs, one a rake of a cardinal, the other a canonized saint… even though – or perhaps because – he was a Jesuit. I do this partially in light of a meeting of a couple of highly visible Jesuits who seemed to have discussed with a measure of approving glee something that their forebears in the Society would have retched over in disgust. ![]() Hence, I’ll repost a little of what I wrote the day I found his tomb. A few weeks ago, I posted about going to find in Rome’s mighty, but besmirched, Gesù the tomb of a Jesuit saint held to be as if the Society’s “second founder”, St. ![]()
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