The Jesuits In History Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Jesuits in HistoryWhen Ignatius Loyola appeared on the scene at the time of the great world crisis known as the Reformation, the fervent Romanist might well exclaim - the hour has come and the man! For Rome the hour had certainly come in a different sense than her devotees believed - the hour when she was being weighed in the balance and found wanting. The dissoluteness of her various orders, her shameless traffic in holy things, the political as well as spiritual despotism which she wielded over individuals - these proved so much combustible material which only needed the match of Luther to set ablaze. In its desperation, in its hour of direst need, the Papacy looked around for help to stop the world-wide conflagration. The hour of humiliation had come. Where was the man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.