- Francis Xavier
Saint Francis Xavier was a Spanish pioneering Roman Catholic Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). The Roman Catholic Church considers him to have converted more people to Christianity than anyone since St. Paul. - John Carroll
John Theodore Carroll, S.J., (January 8 1735 - December 3 1815) was the first bishop and archbishop in the United States - serving as the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is also known as the founder of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States, and the Georgetown Preparatory School, the oldest Catholic day and boarding school in the United States. John Carroll University is named in his honor. - Ignatius Of Loyola
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission. Members of the order are called Jesuits. The compiler of the "Spiritual Exercises" and a gifted spiritual director, Ignatius has been described by Pope Benedict XVI as being "above all a man of God, … - James Martin
James Martin is the associate editor of the Jesuit magazine America. He is known for his critical reporting on Opus Dei. Martin graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 1982 and worked in corporate finance at General Electric for 6 years. Becoming dissatisfied with the corporate world, he became more deeply involved in the Catholic Church and made the decision to become a Jesuit in 1988. In addition to his work at America Magazine, … - Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci (courtesy name:西泰 Xītài) was an Italian Jesuit priest. Matteo Ricci was born in 1552 in Macerata, then part of the Papal States. Ricci started learning theology and law in a Roman Jesuits' school. In 1577, he filed an application to be a member of a Missionary to India, and his journey began in March 1578 from Lisbon, Portugal. He arrived in Goa, a Portuguese Colony, in September 1578, and four years later he was dispatched to China. - Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner, SJ (March 5, 1904 - March 30, 1984) was a German theologian, one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and died in Innsbruck, Austria. His theology influenced the Second Vatican Council and was ground-breaking for the development of what is generally seen as the modern understanding of Catholicism. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest trained as a paleontologist and a philosopher, and was present at the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived such ideas as the Omega Point and the Noosphere. Teilhard's primary book, "The Phenomenon of Man", set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos. He abandoned traditional interpretations of creation in the Book of Genesis in favor of a less strict interpretation. - Robert Bellarmine
Roberto Francesco Romolo Cardinal Bellarmino is a Saint and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of only thirty-three Doctors of the Church. - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit priest, was an English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially in regard to sprung rhythm) and his vibrant use of imagery established him as both an original and daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse. - Adam Weishaupt
Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 in Ingolstadt - 18 November 1830 in Gotha) was a German who founded the Order of Illuminati. - John Dear
Fr. John Dear, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer, and writer of approximately twenty books on nonviolence, including "Living Peace". In the course of his civil disobedience against war, he has been arrested more than 75 times. In addition, he was incarcerated for eight months for participating in a Plowshares Movement disarmament action. As a result, Dear lost his United States voting rights, is prohibited from traveling to certain countries, … - Ted Kennedy
Edward Phillip Kennedy was a prominent Australian clergyman and activist. Ted Kennedy was known throughout Australia as the priest of St Vincent’s Roman Catholic church in the Sydney inner-city suburb of Redfern. He arrived there in 1971, appointed to head a team ministry by the then Archbishop of Sydney James Freeman (later Cardinal). - Edmund Campion
St. Edmund Campion (January 24,1540 - December 1, 1581) was a Catholic priest, Jesuit and martyr. - Aloysius Gonzaga
St Aloysius Gonzaga (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga, 9 March 1568-21 June 1591) was an Italian Jesuit and saint. - Confucius
Confucius (lit. "Master Kung," 551 BCE - 479 BCE) was an esteemed Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese thought and life. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. These values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, … - Jacques Marquette
Father Jacques Marquette (June 10, 1637-May 18, 1675) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. Father Marquette was born in Laon, France, and joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen. After working and teaching in France for several years, he was dispatched to Quebec in 1666 to preach to the Native Americans, where he showed great proficiency in the local languages, especially Huron. - Jon Sobrino
Jon Sobrino, S.J. (born 27 December 1938, Barcelona, Spain) is a Jesuit Catholic priest and theologian, known mostly for his contributions to liberation theology. - Peter Claver
Saint Peter Claver (in Spanish: Pedro Claver) was a Jesuit who, due to his remarkable life and work, become the patron saint of slaves, of Colombia and of African Americans. - Isaac Jogues
Saint Isaac Jogues was a Jesuit missionary who travelled and worked among the Native Americans in North America. He gave the original European name to Lake George, calling it "Lac du Saint Sacrement", "Lake of the Holy Sacrament". He is regarded as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1930 Jogues, St. Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuits or laymen associated with them, were canonized as "The North American Martyrs," or "St. - Frank Brennan
Father Frank Brennan, AO, SJ, a Jesuit priest and lawyer, is Professor of Law in the Institute of Legal Studies, at the Australian Catholic University. He has also been the Director of the Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre in Sydney. He is the son of Sir Gerard Brennan, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians (1995). - Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip performed non-violent protests against war and were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. - Pope Clement Xiv
Pope Clement XIV (31 October 1705 - 22 September 1774), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was Pope from 1769 to 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only Franciscan friar in the College of Cardinals. - Pope Benedict Xiv
Pope Benedict XIV (March 31, 1675 - May 3, 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758. - Paul The Apostle
St. Paul the Apostle (שאול התרסי in Hebrew), the "Apostle to the Gentiles" was, together with Saint Peter, the most notable of Early Christian missionaries. Unlike the Twelve Apostles, Paul did not know Jesus in life; he came to faith through a vision of the risen Jesus and stressed that his apostolic authority was based on his vision. As he wrote, he "received it [the Gospel] by revelation from Jesus Christ" ; according to Acts, … - Alfred Delp
Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J. was a German priest who took part in the resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany. - Alberto Rivera
Alberto Magno Romero Rivera (1935 - 1997) was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick's stories about the Vatican. Rivera was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, in 1935 and died on June 20, 1997 of colorectal cancer in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, in the United States. Chick promised to promote Alberto's claims even after he died. - Anthony de Mello
Fr. Anthony de Mello, S.J. (1931-1987) was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality. He hosted many spiritual retreats and was considered by some a gifted public speaker. Father de Mello was born in Santa Cruz, a suburb of Mumbai in India. He traveled to many countries to study and later to teach, most notably Spain and the United States. De Mello established a prayer center in India. He died suddenly in 1987. - Henri de Lubac
"His Eminence" Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, SJ (February 20, 1896-September 4, 1991) was a French priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th Century. His writings and doctrinal research played a key role in the shaping of the Second Vatican Council. - Malachi Martin
Malachi Brendan Martin (July 23, 1921-July 27, 1999) was a Roman Catholic priest and a former Jesuit. Author of several books on religious and geo-political topics, he was a controversial commentator on the Vatican and other Catholic matters. He was a brother of the Irish historian F. X. Martin. - John Courtney Murray
The Reverend John Courtney Murray, SJ (September 12, 1904-August 16, 1967), was a Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent American intellectual who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism, religious freedom, and the American political order. During the Second Vatican Council, he played a fundamental role in persuading the Church to adopt the Council's ground-breaking Declaration on Religious Liberty, "Dignitatis Humanae". - John Nelson
Blessed John Nelson (1534-Feb. 3, 1578) was an English Jesuit martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Nelson was from Skelton, near York. He was nearing 40 when he left for Douai in 1573 for training as a priest. Two of his four brothers would later follow him there to become priests. He was ordained at Binche in Hainaut by Monsignor Louis de Berlaymont, Archbishop of Cambrai, on June 11, 1576. The next November, he left for his mission, … - Joseph Fessio
Joseph Fessio, (born January 10, 1941) is a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and the founder and editor of Ignatius Press. He was the founding provost of Ave Maria University until March 2007. - Stanislaus Kostka
Stanisław Kostka, S.J. (28 October 1550 – 15 August 1568), was a Polish novice of the Society of Jesus. In the Catholic Church, he is venerated as Saint Stanislaus Kostka. Born at Rostkowo, near Przasnysz, Poland, on 28 October, 1550; died at Rome during the night of 14-15 August, 1568. He entered the Society of Jesus in Rome on his 17th birthday (28 October, 1567), and is said to have foretold his death a few days before it occurred. - Robert Drinan
Father Robert Frederick Drinan, S.J. (November 15 1920 - January 28 2007) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. He was also a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center for the last twenty-six years of his life. - Petrus Canisius
Saint Petrus Canisius (May 8, 1521 - December 21, 1597) was an important Jesuit who fought against the spread of Protestantism in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Switzerland. The restoration of Catholicism in Germany after the Reformation is attributed to his work. St. Peter became canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1925. His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is April 27 or December 21. - Peter Faber
Peter Faber (French Pierre Lefevre or Pierre Favre, Latin Petrus Faber) (April 13, 1506 - August 1, 1546) was a French Jesuit theologian and a cofounder of the Society of Jesus. He was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on September 5, 1872. - Bernard Lonergan
Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J. (17 December 1904 - 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit Priest. He was a philosopher-theologian in the Thomist tradition and an economist from Buckingham, Quebec. He taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now Concordia University), the University of Toronto (Regis College), the Pontifical Gregorian University and Boston College. He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology(1973), … - Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 - April 17, 1680), the daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Christian Algonquin woman, was born in the Mohawk fortress of Ossernenon near present-day Auriesville, New York. At the age of 4 smallpox swept through Ossernenon, and Tekakwitha was left with unsightly scars and poor eyesight. The outbreak took the lives of her brother and both her parents. She was then adopted by her uncle, who was the chief of the Turtle-clan. - George Coyne
George V. Coyne, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory’s research group which is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. - James White
James White (June 16, 1749 - October 1809) was an American physician, lawyer, and politician. He was an early settler at Nashville, Tennessee and in Louisiana. He was a delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory. White was born into a prosperous mercantile family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His early education was at the College of St. Omer, a Jesuit preparatory school in France.
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