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Key Facts |
| Other names |
Tirso González de Santalla |
| Born |
1624 |
| Location |
Arganza, Spain |
| Bloodline |
Unknown |
| Married |
No |
| Children |
No |
| Position |
Superior General (1686-1705) |
| Died |
27 October 1705 |
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Source of Facts and Important Announcement |
| Status |
Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven. |
| Date of formal Beatification |
Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012. |
| Source of Facts |
Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint. |
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Background |
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He was born in 1622 in Argante a small town in Leon, Spain. He had entered the Society at the age of 20 in 1642 and became a renowned parish-mission preacher in a team with a certain Gabriel Guillén. The two of them were known all over Spain for their Parish missions and worked successfully together from 1665 until 1672. |
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Then Gonzalez was appointed to teach Theology at Salamanca and it was there that he became obsessed with the theological opinions known among theologians as probabilism versus probabiliorism, one more rigorous on Moral issues than the other after which there was a falling out of friendship with Guillén. |
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After the death of de Noyelle the 13th General Congregation was called for June 22 until Sept. 7, 1667. |
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The Pope had made it clear that he wanted the Congregation to elect Gonzalez General and to approve a decree expressly stating that Jesuits were free to defend probabiliorism with a clear conscience. The 65 year old Gonzalez was elected General as Innocent had requested on July 6, 1687. |
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When the project of King James II of England to return it to Catholic rule failed, He escaped the forces of William of Orange in December 1688 of Paris. Fearing the dangers of his own court, King Louis XIV then requested the Jesuits provide him safety and hide him in the grounds of the Collège de Clermont in Paris. |
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General Gonzalez sent Michelangelo Tamburini S.J. to meet with the king at the Collège de Clermont and propose to him a plan to subvert the Protestant nobility and their Freemasonry clubs by "resurrecting" the mythology of the Templars and instituting a higher authority Freemason lodge. King James II agreed and implemented the first 25 rites of the Scottish Rite as written by the Jesuits. |
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In 1696, the 14th, General Congregation was called by Gonzalez at the request of the Pope. This was done in accord with the decree of Innocent X, which required the Jesuits to have a General Congregation every nine years. |
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Gonzalez was 80 years old by this time and was failing physically. His Assistants advised him to choose a Vicar General and he chose Michelangelo Tamburini to help him. The next "9 year" General Congregation was coming closer and was called for January 1706. The General insisted on imposing his own moral ideas on the whole Society and the Theologians balked. As the delegates began arriving in Rome for the 15th General Congregation, Thyrsus Gonzalez was called to eternal reward and a great sigh of relief was heard among the delegates and in Jesuit houses around the world. |
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After a Generalate of 18 years and 3 months Gonzalez died on October 27, 1705. He was succeeded as superior general by Michelangelo Tamburini (1706–1730). |
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