La Expulsión de los jesuitas de Catalunya
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The expulsion and exile of the jesuits in Catalonia.
The expulsion of the Jesuits in the dominions of Charles III in the spring of 1767, had some peculiarities in Catalonia: delays in the application of the decree in cities like Barcelona, Cervera and Manresa, difficulties in the transfer of the Catalan Jesuits to the novitiate of Tarragona, pressures to force the abandonment of the order to
these youngmen, and the prominent role of Juan Felipe Castaños, the local governor,
in the preparations for the embarking in Salou. It specifies the number of Catalans
Jesuits exiled and it describes the difficulties of their journey, since their arrival
in Ferrara, the city of their final destination in Italy, takes place in September 1768,
after spending a hard time in the island of Corsica. Among the Catalans exiled were great scholars, like Nuix i Perpinyà, Llampillas, Gallisá, Pla, Gustá or Joan Francesc Masdeu. The return of the Catalan exiled who survived was only possible in 1815,
upon the restoration of the Society of Jesus by Pio VII.
The expulsion of the Jesuits in the dominions of Charles III in the spring of 1767, had some peculiarities in Catalonia: delays in the application of the decree in cities like Barcelona, Cervera and Manresa, difficulties in the transfer of the Catalan Jesuits to the novitiate of Tarragona, pressures to force the abandonment of the order to
these youngmen, and the prominent role of Juan Felipe Castaños, the local governor,
in the preparations for the embarking in Salou. It specifies the number of Catalans
Jesuits exiled and it describes the difficulties of their journey, since their arrival
in Ferrara, the city of their final destination in Italy, takes place in September 1768,
after spending a hard time in the island of Corsica. Among the Catalans exiled were great scholars, like Nuix i Perpinyà, Llampillas, Gallisá, Pla, Gustá or Joan Francesc Masdeu. The return of the Catalan exiled who survived was only possible in 1815,
upon the restoration of the Society of Jesus by Pio VII.
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Giménez López, Enrique; and Martínez Naranjo, Francisco Javier. “La Expulsión de los jesuitas de Catalunya”. Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, vol.VOL 20, pp. 115-36, https://raco.cat/index.php/ButlletiSCEH/article/view/247122.