1720 –
EUROPE
• Jesuit seminary is erected (1720-22) in Ellwangen (Germany).
• Jesuit college in Pecs (Hungary) is built.
1721 –
EUROPE
• Clement XI dies. Innocent XIII becomes pope.
ASIA
• S.G. John Baptist Messari and S.G. Francis Mary Bucherelli are martyred in Vietnam during this year’s persecution.
AMERICAS
• Sixth Jesuit Bolivian reducción in Chiquitania, San Miguel Arcángel (present-day San Miguel de Velasco), founded.
1722 –
EUROPE
• Observatory founded by civil government is entrusted to the Jesuits in Lisbon.
1723 –
EUROPE
• Sept. 13 – Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith accused the Jesuits in China of
disobedience. This led to banning novices from entering and stopping SJ missionaries to
the Far East.
General Tamburini defended himself and the Society with documents showing that he
had sent orders to Jesuits in China to observe Church’s decrees.
ASIA
• John Baptist Messari German Jesuit is martyred in Tonkin (former region of Vietnam) during the persecution there.
AMERICAS
• Seventh Jesuit Bolivian reduccion in Chiquitania, San Ignacio de Zamucos, founded.
1724 –
EUROPE
• Innocent XIII dies. Benedict XIII becomes pope.
• Benedict XIII placed much of the affairs of the papacy into hands of Niccolo Coscia, his secretary who was totally corrupt.
• The Jesuit church (1724-29) is built in Ellwangen (Germany).
• General Tamburini goes to Benedict XIII and convinces him of the Society’s innocence as regards resisting orders of the Holy See in China.
This leads to removal of ban on the reception of novices and sending of SJs to the Far East
earlier decreed by Innocent XIII.
1725 –
EUROPE
• Emmanuel Padial (Venerable) dies.
AMERICAS
• Sixth estancia (last one), Estancia San Ignacio, in Argentina, is established.
1726 –
EUROPE
• Benedict XIII canonizes Kostka and Gonzaga
• Bernard Francis de Hoyos enters the Society at the age of 14-15 years old.
ASIA
• By this time, Jesuits in the Philippines running 4 colleges – Manila, Cavite, Cebu and Iloilo (plus San Jose Seminary in Manila) and 8 residences.
AMERICAS
• 60 Jesuits from Spain sail to Paraguay.
• Death of Domenico Zipoli, musician and composer in the Jesuit Reductions in Latin America. He was a Jesuit scholastic, but never ordained because no bishop was near before he died of tuberculosis.
1727 –
EUROPE
• Isaac Newton dies.
1728 –
EUROPE
• Jesuits build Church in Esztergom between 1728 and 1738. This parish church is a dominant building in the historical city centre of Esztergom (Hungary).
ASIA
• Jesuits found in Macao St. Joseph’s Seminary to train both foreigners and young men of Macao as missionaries for China.
