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"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
The fort, built by the Jesuits in the 17th century as a defense against the Dutch, was largely destroyed by the same fire that burned St. Paul’s.
The Iroquois killed thousands of Huron in all-out war, and two Jesuits, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, were tortured to death.
The handsome 17th-century palace of the Jesuits is now the Pinacoteca di Brera, one of the country’s foremost art museums of medieval and Renaissance art, concentrating on the master artists of northern Italy.
The town was handed over to the Jesuits in 1579.