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LAYNEZ (or LAINEZ), DIEGO (1512-1565)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAYNEZ (or LAINEZ), DIEGO (1512-1565)  , the second See also:general of the Society of Jesus, was See also:born in See also:Castile, and after studying at See also:Alcala joined See also:Ignatius of See also:Loyola in See also:Paris, being one of the six who with Loyola in See also:August 1534 took the See also:vow of missionary See also:work in See also:Palestine in the Montmartre See also:church . This See also:plan See also:fell through, and See also:Laynez became See also:professor of scholastic See also:theology at Sapienza . After the See also:order had been definitely established (1540) Laynez was sent to See also:Germany . He was one of the See also:pope's theologians at the See also:council of See also:Trent (q.v.), where he played a weighty and decisive See also:part . When Loyola died in 1556 Laynez acted as See also:vicar of the society, and two years later became general . Before his See also:death at See also:Rome, on the 19th of See also:January 1565, he had immensely strengthened the despotic constitution of the order and See also:developed its educational activities (see See also:JESUITS) . His Disputationes Tridentinae were published in 2 volumes in 1886 . Lives by See also:Michel d'Esne (See also:Douai, 1597) and Pet . See also:Ribadeneira (See also:Madrid, 1592; See also:Lat. trans. by A . Schott, See also:Antwerp, 1598) . See also H . See also:Muller, See also:Les Origines de la Compagnie de Jesus: Ignace et Lainez (1898) .

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