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Key Facts |
| Other names |
Jan Philipp Roothaan |
| Born |
1785 |
| Location |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Bloodline |
Unknown |
| Married |
No |
| Children |
No |
| Position |
Superior General (1829-1853) |
| Died |
May 8, 1853 |
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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 Amsterdam on November 23, 1785 of parents who had emigrated from Frankfurt, and who had also converted from Calvinism. Under the apt guidance of a former Jesuit, who had been caught in the Suppression, and of another under whom he studied the classics he went to Dvinck (Duneburg) in White Russia so he could enter the Society, which he did, on June 18, 1804. |
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In Poland as a scholastic he taught Classics and Rhetoric and was ordained in 1812 at Polotsk. On August 14, 1814 when Pope Pius VII restored the Society, Roothaan was in Pusza. When the Jesuits were expelled from Russia by the Tsar, Roothaan fled to the Jesuit College at Brig in Switzerland where he taught Rhetoric and preached parish missions in the whole Vallesia region along the upper reaches of the Inn River. He founded the College at Turin and became its Rector. |
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The Congregation held after the death of Father Fortis was held between June 20, 1829 and August 17. On July 9 Roothaan, only 44 years old, was elected General, the youngest since Acquaviva. |
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During his generalate the secular world, too, was changing. Napoleon had been defeated and exiled; the Catholic Hierarchy was restored in England. Belgium became an independent country and Victoria had begun her long reign as Queen/Empress. Roothaan saw his Jesuits expelled from several countries only to expand to newer corners of the Lord's vineyard. The Belgian, DeSmet, went to evangelize the American Indians in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West. Jesuits expelled from Italy founded colleges and missions. The influential Italian review, Civiltá Cattolica, was founded in Naples in 1850, later to move to Rome. So, despite the many heartaches Roothaan suffered, as his Jesuits suffered, he also received many consolations. |
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Jan Roothaan was General for 23 years and 10 months and died at age 68 on May 8, 1853. He was succeeded as superior general by Peter Jan Beckx (1853-1887). |
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Most Evil Crimes |
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List of most evil crimes |
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Of inciting violence and political destabilization (1848): That Jesuit Superior General Jan Roothaan, now in control of the majority of the former Papal wealth did fund and deliberately cause violence and rebellion against Louis Philippe of France for expelling the Jesuit order in 1831. Furthermore, the Jesuit order did arrange for the installment of the nephew of Napoleon Boneparte, named Charles "Louis Napoleon" Bonaparte and in 1852 did quash democratic values by ensuring his installment as the new Emperor of a Republic.
Furthermore, that the Jesuit Order did supports the invasion of Italy to quash liberalism and rights of democracy and restore the Pope to the throne in 1849. |
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Of establishing an unlawful enterprise for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing drugs (1852) That upon ensuring the installment of Charles "Louis Napoleon" Bonaparte as Emperor in 1852, that the Jesuits Jan Roothaan and Pieter Beckx did secure a new arrangement to recommence their drug operations in the growing of opium poppies and manufacture of opium in South East Asia, including Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. |
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