With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., PhD (1984), is curator of the Avery, Cardinal Dulles Archives (Fordham University) and archivist of the Maryland province of the Society of Jesus. His most recent monograph is The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1598–1606: “Lest our lamp be entirely extinguished” (Brill, 2017).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsIntroductionThomas M. McCoog, S.J.1 The Role and Significance of Father Visitor in the Society of Jesus Robert Danieluk, S.J.,2 The Visitor and the Viceroy: Juan de la Plaza and the First Visitation to Jesuit Peru, 1575–79 Andrés I. Prieto3 Between King and Superior General: Visitor Lorenzo Maggio and the Rehabilitation of the Society of Jesus in France, 1599–1603 Eric Nelson4 Seventeenth-century Visitations of the Transmarine Houses of the English Province Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.5 The Visitation of Mercure Verdier to Ireland, 1648–1649 Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin6 A Scandal in Moravia: Jesuit Visitor Nicolò Avancini and the 1674 Case of the Jesuits Jan Tanner and Vilém Frölich Paul Shore7 Francisco Saldanha da Gama: The Last Visitor of the Portuguese Assistancy Francisco Malta Romeiras8Peter Kenney: Twice Visitor of the Maryland Mission (1819–21, 1830–33) and Father of the First Two American Provinces Robert Emmett Curran9 Mission Context and the Jesuit Visitor: Charles Bert and the Visitation of Polish Jesuits in the Zambesi Mission, 1924 Festo Mkenda, S.J.10 The Visitation of Alois Ersin, S.J., to the Province of Lower Germany in 1931 Klaus Schatz, S.J.11 The 1961 Visitation of the Australian Province by John J. McMahon, S.J. David Strong, S.J.12 Gordon George and the Visitation of the English Province, 1964–65 Oliver P. Rafferty, S.J.Index

“This is a readable collection that convinces of the importance of the role of the Visitor, with much to interest scholars of religious history and particularly its globalisation.” James E. Kelly, Durham University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (2020), pp. 650–651.