In Naples, the Jesuits were blamed for proposing to the Viceroy that a solemn feast should be held in honor of the Immaculate Conception, and a public pledge be taken to defend that doctrine. This was regarded as a novelty not to be encouraged.
1658
Balthasar Gracian, S.J. dies. Author of The Compleat Gentleman, The Art of Worldly Wisdom. This is a guide to the ethics of worldly life. He was banished from one of our colleges. He wrote, for example, that one should so trust friends as if tomorrow they could be fiends, etc.
1757
In Paris Father Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis was publicly burned by order of Parliament, on the ground (false) that it favored tyrannicide.
1875
Wreck of the Deutschland. Five Franciscan sisters are drowned and it inspires Hopkins to immortalize them in poetry.
1921
I.A. Cullen, S.J. dies He was the founder of the Pioneers, The Total Abstinence Society of the Sacred Heart.
