They extended their areas of work in other North-Eastern states and eventually developed into the Kohima region. Balthasar de Costa, S.J., was the first Pandarasami. Henry Henriques (1520–1600) and others joined Criminali. Georgetown continues to reflect the character of its Jesuit founders with its curricular requirement that all students complete two courses in theology and philosophy. J. Mallat, professor of science at Shembaganur, were the first of its collections. From there they were brought to Ramanathapuram. This category has only the following subcategory. As he ministered to those in the hospital and prison, he went around in the streets of Goa with a bell in hand giving religious instruction. For his contribution to the plant wealth of India, the government of India honoured him with the Padma Shree Award.
The government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1974 in recognition of his contribution to Hindi research and language.Xavier landed in Goa on May 6, 1542. At the time of the suppression, there were two provinces in India, Goa and Malabar, where close to 228 Jesuits were working.Jesuits have been a continuing presence in India since the sixteenth century. "A Jesuit education is grounded in the liberal arts tradition with a focus on quality teaching, critical thinking, and rigorous academic standards and scholarship. In 1970 Jesuits from the Karnataka Province started working in North-East India responding to the invitation of the Bishop of Kohima. Then n 1548 Xavier came back to the Fishery Coast and appointed Criminali as Superior of the mission in the coast.
Henriques had a high regard for the quality of the Christian life of these itinerant preachers. He demanded that they change their lives.After his methods had been approved, de Nobili began to establish Christian centers beyond Madurai, beginning with Tiruchirapalli and Salem. At present three such centres operate, in Chennai, Varanasi, and Ranchi. Roberto de Nobili realized that the same Jesuit cannot minister to groups of people considered by the society as belong to either high or low castes. Though this term was never used by St. Ignatius, later the Jesuits accepted the name in the positive sense of referring to Jesus—“The Company of Jesus,” as it was called by St. Ignatius, later Latinized as “Societas Iesu.”Fr. U.S. News consistently ranks Loyola among the nation’s best universities. Pandarasamis were free from all these obligations. At the request of the Jesuit headquarters, Jesuits from different countries came to work in various parts of India. Patna Mission extended its work to include other North Indian places, which eventually developed into Delhi Province in 2005. This third and final mission lasted from 1595 till the death of the last surviving Jesuit of the Mughal mission—Fr. The Ministry of Human Resource Development in the Indian government has recognized four Jesuit colleges with the award of “College of Excellence.” They are: Loyola College, Chennai; St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore; St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata; and St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.Some Jesuits who came to India were astronomers and cartographers.
S. Maria Packiam, S.J., has developed a new biopesticide called Ponneem. Charles Racine, S.J. Fr. Manual Coutinho, the Portuguese captain, fully supported this venture. Even the suppression of the Society of Jesus worldwide by Pope Clement XIV on July 21, 1773 did not obliterate the presence of Jesuits in India. Given the existing caste system of those days, a concrete problem emerged: how to give religious instructions to these different groups of people and how to gather them together for religious worship. He founded the Indian Historical Research Institute (1926), which trained numerous historians. As of this writing, 3,893 Jesuits are working in eighteen Provinces/Regions in India. he could not win any new converts to Christianity.Constantine Joseph Beschi (1680–1747)Besides their contribution to education, the Jesuits in India have excelled in their contribution to scientific knowledge in India.Empowerment of the MarginalizedFr. People from different villages and towns in Tamil Nadu embraced Christianity in great numbers. They are quite ready to obey the Fathers, as if they lived under obedience, and they are quite ready to die for the love of Christ Our Lord. Once de Costa and a few Brahmin Sannyasis and Pandarasamis tried to bring together Christians belonging to high and low castes. Fr Pedro Arrupe, Chancellor of the Faculty, dated the same day, Cardinal G.M. They were ably assisted by the lay catechists. Students are engaged in a process of exploring the distinctive and constructive ways in which their knowledge and talents will best serve society. The purpose of these centres is primarily to teach part of theology in the various regional languages of India and in consonance with its cultural variety.
The importance given to language was such that the Jesuits decided to speak among themselves only in Tamil. More than 2,100 Jesuits followed Xavier to the East over a period of 200 years. With the future of the mission in mind, Xavier asked Henriques to learn Tamil well and to compose a Tamil grammar after the model of Greek and Latin grammar, so that the missionaries could become proficient in the language of the local people.
In 1895 Schs. Though Xavier came to India with the title and authority of a papal nuncio, he did not use any of the privileges that were his due.