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Xavier, a Spanish monk, was one of the seven original Jesuits in the order founded by his friend Ignatius Loyola. Xavier died in 1552.

Marsiglio, on the contrary, still aims at preserving the unity of the Catholic faith, but wishes this to be done by democratic means, not by the papal absolutism. In practice, most Protestants, when they acquired the government, merely substituted the King for the Pope, and thus secured neither liberty of private judgement nor a democratic method o

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

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In other words, Cranmer’s convictions were both evangelical and “catholic”: “[C. S.] Lewis notes that Cranmer and the other makers of the prayer book ‘wished their book to be praised not for original genius but for catholicity and antiquity’” (Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013], 66).