1730 –
EUROPE
• General Tamburini dies. He was general from (1706 – 1730) – for 24 years.
At time of his death Society had 37 provinces, 612 colleges, 59 novitiates, 340 residences,
200 mission stations, 157 seminaries.
• Frantisek Retz becomes the 15th General at GC XVI (Nov. 1730 – Feb. 13, 1731).
He will be General for 20 years.
• Benedict XIII dies. Clement XII becomes pope.
1731 –
AMERICAS
• Guarani population more than 140,000.
1733 –
AMERICAS
• 58 Jesuits from Spain sail to Paraguay.
1734 –
AMERICAS
• College of St. Ignatius in Mexico is founded.
1735 –
EUROPE
• Bernard Francis de Hoyos (Venerable), dies.
He is considered as the “Apostle of the Sacred Heart”.
• Birth of John Carroll.
• Birth of Peter Joseph de Cloriviere (historical link that joins old and restored Society in France).
• St. Nicolas Church is completed in Prague.
ASIA
• Five Jesuits are assigned in the region of Tonkin (part of Vietnam) – Bartholomew Alvares, Emmanuel Carvalho, Emmanuel de Abreu, Christopher da Sampayo and John Caspar Kratz. All are Portuguese except Kratz who came from Germany.
(3 out of 5 will become martyrs in 1737. Sampayo and Carvalho would be spared from martyrdom).
AMERICAS
• 352 Jesuits in Province of Paraguay.
1736 –
ASIA
• Jesuit mission in Persia after much success is destroyed by violent persecution
1737 –
EUROPE
• John Francis Regis is canonized by Clement XII.
• Joseph Pignatelli (the link connecting the Society from the time of its suppression to that of its restoration) is born.
ASIA
• Martyrdom of Bartholomew Alvares, Emmanuel de Abreu, Vincent da Cunha and John Caspar Kratz (Martyrs of Vietnam). All were Portuguese except Kratz who was German.
1738 –
AMERICAS
• Calera de Las Huérfanas, an estancia in Colonia (in modern Uruguay) is established. Its purpose is to support of the Jesuit college in Belén and the Convent of San Telmo in Buenos Aires. When the Jesuits would be expelled in 1778, Calera would be taken over by a school for orphans, hence its present name.
