LUISA DE See also:CARVAJAL (1568-1614)
, See also:Spanish missionary in See also:England, was See also:born at Jaraicejo in See also:Estremadura on the 2nd of See also:January 1568
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Her See also:father, See also:Don Francisco de See also:Carvajal, was the See also:head of an old and wealthy See also:family which produced many men of See also:note
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Her See also:mother, Dona Maria, belonged to the powerful See also:house of See also:Mendoza
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Both were See also:people of pious See also:character
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The mother died in 1572 from a See also:fever contracted while visiting the poor, and the father took the disease from his wife, and died of it
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Luisa and a See also:brother were See also:left to the care of their See also:grand-aunt Maria Chacon, governess of the See also:young See also:children of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II
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On her See also:death they passed to the care of their maternal See also:uncle, Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza, See also:count of Almazan
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The count, who was named See also:viceroy of See also:Navarre by Philip II., was an able public servant in whom religious zeal was carried to the point of inhuman See also:asceticism
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His niece attracted his favour by her See also:manifest disposition to the religious See also:life; she sent her own See also:share of See also:dinner to the poor, See also:ate broken meats, wore a See also:chain next her skin, and invited humiliation; and at the See also:age of seven-teen she was instructed by the count to make a surrender of her will to two See also:female servants whom he set over her, and by whom she was repeatedly scourged while naked, trampled upon and otherwise See also:ill-treated
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But when Luisa came of age she refused to enter a religious house, and decided to devote herself to the See also:conversion of England
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The See also:execution of the Jesuit emissary See also:priest, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Walpole, in 1596 had moved her deeply, and she prepared herself by learning See also:English and by the study of divinity
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A lawsuit with her brother caused temporary delay, but she secured her share of the family See also:fortune, which she devoted to See also:founding a See also:college for English See also:Jesuits at See also:Louvain; it was transferred to Watten near See also:Saint Omer in 1612, and lasted till the suppression of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order
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In 16o5 she was allowed to go to England
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She established herself under the See also:protection of the Spanish See also:ambassador, whose house was in the See also:Barbican
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From this See also:place of safety she carried on an active and successful propaganda
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She made herself conspicuous by her attentions to the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot prisoners, and won converts, partly by persuasion, partly by helping See also:women of the very poorest class in childbirth,and taking See also:charge of the children
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Her activity attracted the See also:attention of the authorities, and she was arrested in 1608
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But the protection of the Spanish ambassador Zuniga, and the See also:desire of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. to stand well with See also:Spain, secured her See also:release
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In 1613, while staying at a house in See also:Spitalfields, where she had in fact set up a disguised nunnery, she was arrested with all the inmates by the pursuivants of See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, who had been on the See also:watch for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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Her release was again secured by the new Spanish ambassador See also:Gondomar, who played with effect on the weakness of King James
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By this time, however, the Spanish authorities had begun to discover that she was a See also:political danger to them, and recalled her
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Luisa, who had hoped for the See also:crown of martyrdom, was bitterly disappointed, and resisted the order
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Before she could be forced to obey she died in the Spanish ambassador's house on her birthday, the 2nd of January 1614
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Her See also:body remained as an See also:object of admiration for months till it was carried back to Spain
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The See also:original authority for the life of Luisa de Carvajal is La See also:Vida y Virtudes de la See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
Venerable Virgen Dona Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (See also:Madrid, 1632), by the Licentiate Lorenzo Munoz
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It is founded on her own papers collected by her English See also:confessor See also:Michael Walpole
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It is largely autobiographical, and contains some examples of her See also:verse
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The Vida y Virtudes is summarized by See also:Southey in his Letters from Spain and See also:Portugal (1808)
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A life was written by See also:Lady Georgiana See also:Fullerton (1873), in which much that is shocking to See also:modern sentiment is concealed
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See also Quatre Portraits de femmes, by La Comtesse R. de Courson (See also:Paris, 1895)
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There are several references to Luisa de Carvajal in the Records of the English See also:Province of the Society of Jesus, by Henry See also:Foley (1897-1883)
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