The Prototype of Secondary Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Abstract
In the different epochs when the Church was afflicted with the dissemination of new errors, God never failed to raise up extraordinary men, animated by a holy zeal and His assistance has always been given, in proportion to her actual necessities. Now in what age, did the Church stand more in need of the special aid of the Divine power, than when she saw herself attacked by a multitude of enemies whose object and determination were to destroy her very existence? It is not surprising therefore, if Saint Ignatius and his first companions should be regarded as a strong rampart, reared up by the power of Heaven to oppose and withstand the combined assaults of Luther and his fellow reformers.It is incontestable, that the Reformers of the Sixteenth century dreaded the first Jesuits as their enemies. Hence the origin of the hatred which they evinced towards the Society and which the lapse of ages has not been able to extinguish in the hearts of their posterity.
Subject Area
Educational administration|Religion
Recommended Citation
Stines, Alice Mary, "The Prototype of Secondary Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (1922). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189793.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189793
