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CLAUDIO See also:AQUAVIVA (1542-1615)
, fifth See also:general of the See also:Jesuits, the youngest son of the See also:duke d'Altri, was See also:born at See also:Naples
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He joined the Jesuits at See also:Rome in 1567, and his high administrative
gifts marked him out for the highest posts
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He was soon nominated provincial of Naples and then of Rome; and during this See also:office he offered to join the Jesuit See also:mission to See also:England that set out under See also:Robert See also:Parsons (q.v.) in the See also:spring of 1580
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The following See also:year, being then only See also:thirty-seven years old, he was elected, by a large See also:majority, general of the society in See also:succession to Mercurian, to the See also:great surprise of See also:Gregory XIII.; but the extraordinary See also:political ability he displayed, and the vast increase that came to the Society during his See also:long generalate, abundantly justified the votes of the See also:electors
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He, together with Lainez, may be regarded as the real founder of the 'Society as it is known to See also:history
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A born ruler, he secured all authority in his own hands, and insisted that those who prided themselves on their obedience should See also:act up to the profession
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In his first See also:letter " On the happy increase of the Society " (25th of See also:July 1581), he treats of the necessary qualifications for superiors, and points out that See also:government should be directed not by the See also:maxims of human See also:wisdom but by those of supernatural prudence
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He successfully quelled a revolt among the See also:Spanish Jesuits, which was supported by See also: But the See also:Dominicans denounced it to the See also:Inquisition, and it was condemned both in See also:Spain and in Rome, on See also:account of some opinions concerning the Thomist doctrines of the divine See also:physical premotion in secondary causes and See also:predestination . The incriminated chapters were withdrawn in the edition of 1591 . In the fierce disputes that arose between the Jesuit theologians and the Dominicans on the subject of See also:grace, Aquaviva managed, under See also:Clement VIII. and See also:Paul V., to See also:save his party from a condemnation that at one See also:time seemed probable . He died at Rome on the 31st of See also:January 1615, leaving the Society numbering 13,000 members in 550 houses and 15 provinces . The subsequent See also:influence exercised by the Jesuits, in their See also:golden See also:age, was largely due to the far-seeing policy of Aquaviva, who is undoubtedly the greatest general that has governed the Society . (E . |
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