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Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laínez, Nicolás Bobadilla, Peter Faber, and Simão Rodrigues met in the Church of Our Lady at Montmarte to talk about working together for God.
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Pope Paul III established the Society of Jesus as a religious order.
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Ignatius becomes the first superior of the Jesuits.
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Francis Xavier begins spreading the Jesuit order through Asia.
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The first lay Jesuit college opens in Messina, Sicily
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St Ignatius died in Rome on the 31st of July.
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Following the work of St Francis Xavier, the Jesuits are gifted a fiefdom in Japan.
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The Jesuits lose their fiefdom in Japan
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The Jesuits are expelled from Portugal and all Portugese land.
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Jesuits remain intact in Russia.
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The suppression is ended by Pope Pius VII with the Papal bull "Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum."
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The Austrian Jesuits Fathers Kranewitter and Klinkowstroem arrived in Adelaide after being kicked out of Austria (for being Jesuits).
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The Jesuits set up a settlement in the north of the colony with other European settlers, which they named Sevenhill.
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The Bishop assigned the entire north of the Colony to the care of the Jesuits.
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Thomas O'Brien becomes the first Jesuit born in Australia.
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The first Irish Jesuits arrive in Melbourne and they re-open St Patrick's College.
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The Austrian Jesuits gave Mary Mackillop shelter after she was excommunicated.
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The Bishop opened 7 new churches in one fortnight.
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The Parish of North Sydney was founded
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St Kilda House is acquired by Jesuits and becomes a boy's school. It soon moves to Surrey Hills.
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Fr John Dalton, SJ, had established 19 schools in Australia, including St Aloysius College.
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St Ignatius College, Riverview opens in Sydney.
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Nineteen Jesuits went to the Northern Territory to four stations near Darwin, three along the Daly River, in order to help set up self-governing colonies of Aborigines.
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The Austrians began to move their work to the Aboriginal Mission and by 1898 had handed over all but two churches.
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After much disaster the Mission to the Aborigines of the Northern Territory was declared a failure.
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The Austrian Mission and Irish Jesuits merged to form a nationwide Jesuit Mission.
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The school at St Kilda House is moved to Milsons Point and is renamed St Aloysius' College.
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Pedro Arrupe is elected the 28th Superior General of the Society
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This Jesuit Jubilee year marks the 450th anniversary of the death of Ignatius and the 500th anniversary of the births of his companions Francis Xavier and Pierre Favre.
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Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the 266th pope, the first from the Society of Jesus, and takes the name "Francis."