Everard Mercurian (1514 – 1 August 1580) was the fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Born 'Lardinois' into a humble family in Marcourt, near...

Tournai, where in 1562 he was admitted into the Society of Jesus by Everard Mercurian. After he had passed his novitiate he was sent into Ireland with Richard...

twenty-five when he joined the year before in 1567. Upon the death of Everard Mercurian on 1 August 1580, the Fourth General Congregation was called for 7...

Francis Borgia July 2, 1565 October 1, 1572 Gandia, Spain 2,648 4 Everard Mercurian April 23, 1573 August 1, 1580 La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium 2,657 5...

Catholic Church titles Preceded by James Lainez Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1565–1572 Succeeded by Everard Mercurian...

volunteered for fatal collective punishment in Auschwitz; canonized in 1982 Everard Mercurian, died ministering in an influenza epidemic in 1580. Edward Metcalfe...

December 1579 Martin Delrio wrote from Maastricht to the Jesuit General Everard Mercurian seeking to join the Society of Jesus. Delrio professed a sincere conversion...

after an examination by Fr Morales, sent from Rome by Jesuit General Everard Mercurian for the purpose. In 1584 Achille Gagliardi was appointed her spiritual...

government on the suppression of heresy. In the same year, he applied to Everard Mercurian to send Jesuits to Saint-Omer, establishing a Jesuit college in 1569...

mission in Brazil. In 1577 the fourth superior general of the Jesuits, Everard Mercurian, appointed Anchieta as provincial superior of the order's members...