Editing Jesuits (section)

==Notable members==
{{Main|List of Jesuits}}
{{See also|List of Jesuit theologians|3=List of Jesuit scientists}}
Jesuits include [[missionaries]], educators, scientists, artists, philosophers, and a pope. Among many distinguished early Jesuits was [[Francis Xavier]], a missionary to Asia who converted more people to Catholicism than anyone before, and [[Robert Bellarmine]], a [[Doctor of the Church]]. [[José de Anchieta]] and [[Manuel da Nóbrega]], founders of the city of [[São Paulo]], Brazil, were Jesuit priests. Another famous Jesuit was [[Jean de Brébeuf]], a French missionary who was martyred during the 17th century in [[New France]], the part that became Ontario, in Canada.

In Spanish America, [[José de Acosta]] wrote a major work on early [[Peru]] and [[New Spain]] with important material on indigenous peoples. In South America, [[Peter Claver]] was notable for his mission to African slaves, building on the work of Alonso de Sandoval. [[Francisco Javier Clavijero]] was expelled from [[New Spain]] during the [[Suppression of the Society of Jesus]] in 1767 and wrote an important history of Mexico during his exile in Italy. [[Eusebio Kino]] is renowned in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, then called the [[Pimería Alta]]. He founded numerous missions and served as the peace-bringer between the tribes and the government of New Spain. [[Antonio Ruiz de Montoya]] was an important missionary in the [[Jesuit reduction]]s of Paraguay.

[[Baltasar Gracián]] was a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in [[Belmonte de Gracián|Belmonte]], near [[Calatayud]] ([[Aragon]]). His writings, particularly ''El Criticón'' (1651–57) and ''[[Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia]]'' ("The Art of Prudence", 1647) were lauded by [[Arthur Schopenhauer|Schopenhauer]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]].

In Scotland, [[John Ogilvie (saint)|John Ogilvie]], a Jesuit, is the nation's only post-Reformation saint.

[[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] was one of the first English poets to use [[Sprung rhythm|sprung verse]]. [[Anthony de Mello (Jesuit priest)|Anthony de Mello]] was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became recognized for his books which introduced Westerners to the [[South Asia|East]] [[India]]n traditions of spirituality.

[[Dorothy Lawson (recusant)|Dorothy Lawson]] was a [[Recusancy|recusant]] and patroness of the Society of Jesus,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lux-Sterritt |first=Laurence |date=2011 |title='Virgo Becomes Virago': Women in the Accounts of Seventeenth-Century English Catholic Missionaries |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-catholic-history/article/abs/virgo-becomes-virago-women-in-the-accounts-of-seventeenthcentury-english-catholic-missionaries/07AA3FFA140E63445AA358D86DEA99F3 |journal=British Catholic History |language=en |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=537–553 |doi=10.1017/S0034193200013170 |issn=0034-1932 |archive-date=2 December 2024 |access-date=28 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202201908/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-catholic-history/article/abs/virgo-becomes-virago-women-in-the-accounts-of-seventeenthcentury-english-catholic-missionaries/07AA3FFA140E63445AA358D86DEA99F3 |url-status=live }}</ref> who met yearly at her home to discuss the mission in England after the English Reformation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmes |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVQBAAAAQAAJ&q=dorothy+lawson |title=The Life of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson: Of St. Antony's Near Newcastle-on-Tyne |date=1855 |publisher=C. Dolman |language=en }}</ref>

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was [[2013 papal conclave|elected by conclave]] as [[Pope Francis]] on 13 March 2013, the first Jesuit to be elected pope. He served until his death in April 2025.{{sfn|Ivereigh|2014|pp=1–2}}

The Feast of All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds is celebrated on 5 November.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tertianship.eu/2015/11/november-5-feast-of-all-jesuit-saints-and-blessed/ |title=November 5: Feast of all Jesuit Saints and Blessed |website=tertianship.eu |language=en-US |access-date=30 May 2017 |archive-date=3 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703051443/http://tertianship.eu/2015/11/november-5-feast-of-all-jesuit-saints-and-blessed/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>