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'''Vincenzo Caraffa''' ([[5 May]][[1585]] [[Naples]]- [[6 June]][[1649]] [[Rome]]) was the seventh [[Superior-General of the Society of Jesus]]. |
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He was of the family of the Counts of [[Montorio]], and a relative of [[Pope Paul IV]]. He entered the [[Society of Jesus]] on 4 October, 1604, and was sixty years of age at his election as general. He died four years after. |
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He had taught philosophy and governed the principal house of the Society at Naples, and was provincial at the time of the election to the generalship. In 1635 he had published his ''Fascetto di Mirra'' (Bundle of Myrrh), which has been translated into several languages. He is the author of several other [[ascetic]]al works, such as ''Cammino del Cielo'', ''Cittadino del Cielo'', ''Il Peregrino della terra'', ''Idea Christiani hominis'', and ''Il Serafino'', all previous to his election. He wrote under the name '''Aloysius Sidereus'''. |
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His only known writing when General was his [[encyclical letter]]: "De mediis conservandi primævum spiritum Societatis" (The means of preserving the primitive spirit of the Society). |
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His short term in office coincided with the beginning of the war of [[Jansenism]] on the Society and the troubles with [[Palafox]], Bishop of [[La Puebla]]. A great scandal occurred in Spain because of unsuccessful business speculations by a [[coadjutor brother]], and in France on account of the open apostasy to [[Calvinism]] of a priest; but the martyrdom of men like [[Jogues]], [[Brébeuf]], [[Cuthbert Prescott]], Neville, and others in Canada and England was an assurance that the Society's ancient fervour had not relaxed. |
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The [[Confraternity of the Bona Mors]] was instituted at the suggestion of Father Caraffa. |
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{{succession box | before=— | before=[[Mutio Vitelleschi]] | title=[[Superior General of the Society of Jesus]] | after=[[Francisco Piccolomini]] | years=[[1645]] – [[1649]]}} |
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[[Category:1585 births|Caraffa, V]] |
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[[Category:1649 deaths|Caraffa, V]] |
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[[Category:Superior Generals of the Society of Jesus|Caraffa, V]] |
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