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Note that the years to the left form the chronology of
list of the year when each Jesuit was raised to the cardinalte.
<> Though not a bishop, Dulles, as a cardinal, is
entitled to a crozier, a coat of arms, a miter, a pectoral
cross, and a ring. His motto on his coat of arms is "Scio enim
cui credidi" (2 Tim. 1:12), and he is Cardinal Deacon of the Church
of Gesu'
e Maria in Rome.
+Many Jesuit alumni like those from Rome's Gregorian
University (see America, March 5, 2001, p. 19, for and advertisement
with names of at least fifteen, on February 21, 2001) have been created
cardinals over the past 450 years, including one third to one half of the
American cardinals.
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1 Roberto de'Nobili (1541-1559) was created cardinal in 1553 and was
prohibited by the pope from entering the Jesuit Order. However, under
the direction of the Jesuit General,
he lived the rule of the Society of Jesus
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2 Charles de Lorraine (1592-1631), begged Pope Gregory XV, who
wished to raise the Jesuit (from a royal family and Prince Bishop of Verdun)
to the cardinalte, that he not do so.
#3
Jan Kazimierz (1609-1672), created in 1647, resigned the cardinalate
before being conferred the red hat. He was a Polish king
and a Lithuanian grand duke.
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4 Luigi di Canossa (1809-1900), a former Jesuit (1837-1847) who
joined the Diocese of Verona and was elevated in 1877.
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5 Paul Emile Leger (1904-1991), elevated in 1953, was a Jesuit
novice for a short time (September 7, 1925 to November 6, 1925).
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6 Richard J. Cushing (1895-1970), Archbishop of Boston, was twice scheduled
to enter the Society of Jesus but chose the secular clergy. After
he was informed on the night of November 16, 1958 (that day, he was made
a Founder of the New England Province) that he was to be created
a cardinal, he atrributed this to the influence of the Jesuits.
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7 Ignatius Kung Pin-mei (1901-2000) was educated by the Jesuits and
worked closely with them. His public reception as a cardinal in 1991
was held at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome and he was buried in the Santa
Clara Cemetery at the Jesuit university in California.^
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8 Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988),
though he died before his elevation, he was a Jesuit from 1929 to 1950
and some believe that he was received back into the Jesuit Order before
his death. Interviewed by
Zenit (December 11, 2003), Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec pointed
out that, in addition to himself, the following cardinals were students
of von Balthasar: Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest,
Joseph Ratzinger of the Curia, Christoph Sconborn of Vienna, and James
Francis Stafford of the Curia.
^Created in pectore before it was later
made public.
*Taught at Jesuit Theologate, Woodstock, Maryland.
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