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PIERRE JEAN BECKX (1795-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 611 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:JEAN See also:BECKX (1795-1887)  , See also:general of the Society of Jesus, was See also:born at Sichem in See also:Belgium on the 8th of See also:February 1795, and entered the novitiate of the See also:order at See also:Hildesheim in 1819 . His first important See also:post was as See also:procurator for the See also:province of See also:Austria, 1847; next See also:year he became See also:rector of the Jesuit See also:college at See also:Louvain, and, after serving as secretary to the provincials of Belgium and Austria, was elected See also:head of the order in 1853 . His See also:tenure of See also:office was marked by an increased zeal for See also:missions in See also:Protestant lands, and by the removal of the society's headquarters from See also:Rome to See also:Fiesole near See also:Florence in 1870 . His See also:chief See also:literary See also:work was the often-translated See also:Month of See also:Mary (See also:Vienna, 1843) . He retired in See also:September 1883, being succeeded by See also:Anthony M . Anderledy, a Swiss, who had seen service in the See also:United States . He died at Rome on the 4th of See also:March 1887 .

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